On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 10:10:10PM +0100, Bob Ham wrote: > On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 17:35, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > > > Another question: would it be possible to use a Debian testing, and > > > change the sources.list so that you can use the unstable sound apps? > > This normally is no problem, you can have both in your sources.list, > > the one coming first gets taken then. That way, if you put unstable > > after testing, you can keep a testing system and only install those > > apps from unstable, that aren't in testing. > > Actually, I don't think this will work; doing an "apt-get install > package" or "apt-get dist-upgrade" will upgrade packages to their latest > version, whichever disribution tree they come from, IIRC. It doesn't > matter tho, because the unstable tree is constituted not only by > unstable packages, but packages from other trees in order to fill the > gaps. When there were the actual directory trees, the files were linked > from the approriate directory. I don't know what the new fangled pool > system does to this tho; I assume all the gap-filling goes on in the > Packages file. Plus, I don't know if the gaps are filled from stable or > testing.. I'd imagine testing, seeing as it's the logical choice. > Anyway, you can install a package specifically from testing if you do > "apt-get install package=testing" or something like that; check the man > page. Of course, you do have to have testing listed in your > sources.list then. > > Bob > > -- > Bob Ham: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pkl.net/~node/ > > My music: http://mp3.com/obelisk_uk > GNU Hurd: http://hurd.gnu.org/
Hi, It's is indeed possible to use testing and chose packages from unstable. IIRC it's called "pinning", docs in man apt_preferences. regareds Örjan