Re: Getting only selected unstable debs with apt-get

2000-10-21 Thread Colin Watson
"Scott V. McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there any way to get just selected unstable packages using apt-get, >like mutt 1.2? If I put lines for unstable in sources.list I think I >will get the unstable versions of all packages. Is that right? Yes. apt 0.4, currently only in CVS, will ha

Re: Getting only selected unstable debs with apt-get

2000-10-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
If you have run 'apt-get update' with the unstable path in sources.list, you can use 'apt-cache showpkg ' to check the dependencies. If there are versioned dependencies, things can get *interesting*. On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 12:32:43AM -0400, Mike wrote: > Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote

Re: Getting only selected unstable debs with apt-get

2000-10-20 Thread Mike
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi, > apt-get source doesnt take care of dependencies. Ah. Yes. Good point. Thanks for the reminder. Yes, dependancies will have to be taken care of manually. That can be a pain in the butt to do, especially for a large and / or complex

Re: Getting only selected unstable debs with apt-get

2000-10-20 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi, apt-get source doesnt take care of dependencies. > > Scott V. McGuire wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there any way to get just selected unstable packages using apt-get, > > like mutt 1.2? If I put lines for unstable in sources.list I think I > > will get the unstable versions of a

Re: Getting only selected unstable debs with apt-get

2000-10-20 Thread Mike
Scott V. McGuire wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any way to get just selected unstable packages using apt-get, > like mutt 1.2? If I put lines for unstable in sources.list I think I > will get the unstable versions of all packages. Is that right? Only if you do something along the lines of apt-get up