Re: best way to run stable or testing program on ustable system (fwd)

2003-06-03 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 07:19:10AM -0400, Shaun ONeil wrote: > Possibly not the quickest, but my favoured solution to this is to visit > snapshot.debian.net and find a version from just before I experienced > breakages - or if you have the space, not c

Re: best way to run stable or testing program on ustable system (fwd)

2003-06-03 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 12:13:25PM +0200, Grzesiek Sedek wrote: > I run my system as unstable, but in certain situations (i.e. recent > Evolution Segfault or Mozilla problem on ppc) I'd like downgrade certain > programs back to testing or stable - unti

Re: best way to run stable or testing program on ustable system (fwd)

2003-06-02 Thread Leandro GuimarĂ£es Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Mon, 02 Jun 2003 07:19:10 +, Shaun ONeil wrote: > A cleaner method appears to be "apt pinning", but I have little to no > idea how this works - I'd suggest searching the archives. There is a fair explanation at the Apt HOWTO manual. -- Leandro GuimarĂ£es Faria Corsetti Dutra -

Re: best way to run stable or testing program on ustable system(fwd)

2003-06-02 Thread Shaun ONeil
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 06:13, Grzesiek Sedek wrote: > Hi, > I run my system as unstable, but in certain situations (i.e. recent > Evolution Segfault or Mozilla problem on ppc) I'd like downgrade certain > programs back to testing or stable - until the problem is resolved. I know > that it is possibl

best way to run stable or testing program on ustable system (fwd)

2003-06-02 Thread Grzesiek Sedek
Hi, I run my system as unstable, but in certain situations (i.e. recent Evolution Segfault or Mozilla problem on ppc) I'd like downgrade certain programs back to testing or stable - until the problem is resolved. I know that it is possible so could anyone point me to a document about it or show me