Gareth wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote: > > G'day, all. > > How can I prevent dselect from downloading packages that are already > > installed, merely because the Debian version has changed? > > The way I use is apt-get instead of dselect that way only the packages you > want get upgraded and/or installed and it keeps everything functional. > > just these 2 lines solved a lot of hassle... > apt-get install packagename > and > apt-get remove packagename > > ----Gareth
Is there some easy way to maintain a "half-unstable" machine using apt-get? For a while, I had slink with a 2.2 kernel and a few packages from potato (the ones required for the 2.2 kernel, plus the newest versions of g++, glibc, python, and all dependent packages). I "manually" downloaded the debs from unstable that I wanted and installed them using dpkg -i. Now, I've totally upgraded to potato, so this is kinda moot, but I still wonder: is there some sort of magic I could have done with apt-get, sources.list, shell scripts, etc. to automatically keep updating the desired unstable packages while still leaving the slink parts intact? (Putting things on hold didn't seem to work.) - Kris