Re: Maintaining a mixed system

2003-01-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 02:54:32PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > There's the pinning method that everyone else has suggested, of course, > but there is another way. apt-get, since the release of woody, has a > 'source' function, which can download source packages from the Debian > archive and build deb

Re: Maintaining a mixed system

2003-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 01:54:56PM -0500, Seth Williamson wrote: > I am a total noob and I hope this question is not something so obvious > that it's been hammered to death on this list. Heh. it does come up fairly often, but it's an important and difficult question, so it's worth discussing again

Re: Maintaining a mixed system

2003-01-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 01:54:56PM -0500, Seth Williamson wrote: > I posted the message below on the Libranet list and got some helpful > replies. However, I was not sure about a few of the ramications on > suggestions that I got, and I thought I would post it here and see what > help I might get.

Re: Maintaining a mixed system

2003-01-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 01:54:56PM -0500, Seth Williamson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am a total noob and I hope this question is not something so obvious > that it's been hammered to death on this list. > > I am running stable and I want to stay here. Life is good on stable. > Everything Ju

Re: Maintaining a mixed system

2003-01-18 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 18 January 2003 09:54 am, Seth Williamson wrote: snip > However, for a few--a very few--apps, I would like to run versions that > are newer. I'm not talking a lot here. Probably Evolution, Galeon, > Abiword, and that's it. Otherwise I'd like to run everything stable. > > Can somebody

Maintaining a mixed system

2003-01-18 Thread Seth Williamson
I posted the message below on the Libranet list and got some helpful replies. However, I was not sure about a few of the ramications on suggestions that I got, and I thought I would post it here and see what help I might get. Libranet, as probably everybody here knows, is a specific packaging of