Re: Upgrade a Single Package

2013-08-05 Thread Brian
On Mon 05 Aug 2013 at 20:53:05 +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > The best approach is to either wait for a backport or try to create your > own (which I cannot really help with). A good backporting guide is at http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/12/15/howto-to-rebuild-debian-packages/ -- To UNSUBS

Re: Upgrade a Single Package

2013-08-05 Thread Jochen Spieker
Fred White: > > Is it save to upgrade a package from sid? If you are running stable: generally no. Most packages depend (in)directly on some essential package like libc. If you install such a package from sid, you will end up upgrading tons of other packages as well and then run a completely untes

Re: Upgrade a Single Package

2013-08-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 05/08/13 12:50 PM, Fred White wrote: Is it save to upgrade a package from sid? I would like to upgrade my opendkim from 2.6.8 to 2.8.2 Also, if I do "aptitude update" and then "aptitude -t sid install opendkim" should any other areas get up dated to accommodate the opendkim upgrade. I ask b