On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Quoting Francis J. Bruening([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Is it possible to modify my sources.list somehow to know about the stuff in > > potato so I can pick and choose upgrades I want without going the whole > > shebang on potato? > > If you have a Line in your sources.list for the Potato dist you do > 'not' want to do apt-get upgrade! apt-get install package is OK > but apt-get upgrade will hose your Slink dist.
You'll want to be careful, since potato is based on glibc 2.1 while slink is based on 2.0--you'll have dependancy problems. > You might try adding this link to your sources.list > > deb http://ftp.netgod.net/ x/ > > There are Potato deb's there that have been compiled for Slink. In addition, you could use a deb-src line pointing to the potato sources. Then, "apt-get --compile source <packagename>" will try to download and build the package for your slink system. i don't know how well it handles the -dev packages, you may have to install those yourself (apt-get install package-dev). If the compiler gives an error saying a .h file is not found, use the package search on the website to find which -dev package contains it.
