On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 18:06:33 +0500
Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> what i want to do is, i want some packages that are available in wheezy ,
> Sid and unstable repositories, however they are very old in squeeze.
> i also want to keep my system uptodate for any security patchs. with
> command apt
Thanks Bo lan ,Rob Owens and all others for your input.
>
Somebody mentioned apt pinning, which will achieve what you want. But the
easier way is to put this in /etc/apt/apt.conf:
APT::Default-Release "squeeze";
Test this by running 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade'. You don't have
to go through with the upgrade, just look and see what is being upgr
On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 18:06 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> Thank Bo lan,
You are welcome.
> actually i was assuming that if there is a command to install update
> package specifically from test or sid like "apt-get install name>/" in same way i though i could run some thing
> like "apt-g
Thank Bo lan,
i have run the apt-get update but i haven't run apt-get upgrade or
dist-upgrade. so i think i am still safe.
actually i was assuming that if there is a command to install update
package specifically from test or sid like "apt-get install /" in same way i though i could run some thin
There is the possibility to use pinning, a search engine is your friend.
Regarding to "6.0.4 to 6.0.7" it's unclear what you really mean. I
suspect a typo, or laziness to inform yourself about releases and
upgrades ;).
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On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 11:32 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> i am using stable,testing and unstable repositories to get up to date
> packages.
If you are using all three of these repositories, then your Debian
version is unstable (sid), because every package would be updating to
unstable.
>
i am using stable,testing and unstable repositories to get up to date
packages.
and i am using Debian squeeze,
lets say if i want to upgrade my Debian from 6.0.4 to 6.0.7 only from
stable. then how i could do it?
actually i am confused a bit, lets say if i run "apt-get upgrade" and i
have all th
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