Re: Can I get new, but *not* updated packages from unstable?
Joe Emenaker wrote: For a long time, I've had a policy of updating my servers from stable *and* unstable because I wanted the newly packaged stuff but also, more importantly, because I wanted bug fixes for security holes asap... without having to wait for the next official release of Debian. Well, it seems that bug fixed versions are placed in stable as well, so I don't need unstable for that. However, I still would like to get to all of the new packages there. Is there anyway to use unstable *only* for the packages that *don't* exist in stable? Security updates for stable are posted on security.debian.org and should be availiable about the same time that unstable's holes are fixed. Potato is based on glibc2.1. Slink is glibc2.0... so from what I've read on many other posts here, it's a BadIdea(tm) to try and mix these due to the different glibc dependencies. --Evan
Re: Can I get new, but *not* updated packages from unstable?
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 08:50:25AM -0400, Evan Van Dyke wrote: Joe Emenaker wrote: Potato is based on glibc2.1. Slink is glibc2.0... so from what I've read on many other posts here, it's a BadIdea(tm) to try and mix these due to the different glibc dependencies. Errr..not exactly. As long as you upgrade your libc6 and a few other core packages to the potato versions, you can keep everything else as a slink version. slink packages work fine with the potato libraries, but the converse isn't true. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: Can I get new, but *not* updated packages from unstable?
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 08:50:25AM -0400, Evan Van Dyke wrote: Joe Emenaker wrote: For a long time, I've had a policy of updating my servers from stable *and* unstable because I wanted the newly packaged stuff but also, more importantly, because I wanted bug fixes for security holes asap... without having to wait for the next official release of Debian. *snip* Is there anyway to use unstable *only* for the packages that *don't* exist in stable? *snip* Potato is based on glibc2.1. Slink is glibc2.0... so from what I've read on many other posts here, it's a BadIdea(tm) to try and mix these due to the different glibc dependencies. What I would do, had I not already taken the plunge to potato, would be to download the source of apt from potato, compile and install it. Then I could add a deb-src line to /etc/apt/sources.list specifying potato, and from then on, any packages I wanted from unstable I could fetch with apt-get source --compile package, while any packages fetched with apt-get install would continue to download from slink as normal, and I would solve any glibc2.1 problems as well as having the updated packages. frankie -- ,-. Frankie Fisher| Drum'n'Bass tunes and samples. frankie @ skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk | http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk/ PGP Key available on request.| `-' pgpx8NqB2a4XD.pgp Description: PGP signature
