Re: aptitude and backports with the same name as unstable packages

2004-06-25 Thread Benedict Verheyen
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:28:48 +0200 (CEST), Benedict Verheyen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is there anyway i can view the location or to install from a particular >> location? > > apt-get install package/unstable > > I guess. No, this will not work as the version from unstable and backports

Re: aptitude and backports with the same name as unstable packages

2004-06-25 Thread Benedict Verheyen
> Hi, > > 2) The version of checkinstall and installwatch from backports.org don't > contain a string in the version name so their version is the same as the > version from unstable. When going to the package discription i can only > see for instance for checkinstall > p 1.5.3-3 > p 1.5.3-1 > So i

Re: aptitude and backports with the same name as unstable packages

2004-06-25 Thread Ricky Clarkson
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:28:48 +0200 (CEST), Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there anyway i can view the location or to install from a particular > location? apt-get install package/unstable I guess. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

aptitude and backports with the same name as unstable packages

2004-06-25 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, 1) I have a woody box where i installed some backports of X and other programs. When i started aptitude, it gave me a lot of broken packages because it wanted to upgrade the X packages from unstable ( i have unstable sources in my package list too) and marked the packages as broken. Anyway, i