Re: apt preferences (was Re: Mozilla 1.2.1)

2002-12-10 Thread Jeff Cours
Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote I highly recommend giving aptitude a whirl. It handles this setup much better than dselect. Very nice tool - thanks for the pointer! If I understand correctly what it was telling me last night, it looks like mozilla-browser 1.2.1 depends on libc6, which

Re: apt preferences (was Re: Mozilla 1.2.1)

2002-12-09 Thread Russell
Jeff Cours wrote: I generally manage packages using dselect. I'm running testing, but would like to pick up a package or two from unstable (namely, Mozilla 1.2.1, rather than the 1.0.0 that's in stable). However, I'd still like the machine to be mostly based on testing and stable. Is there a w

Re: apt preferences (was Re: Mozilla 1.2.1)

2002-12-09 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jeff Cours ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021209 11:01]: > I generally manage packages using dselect. I'm running testing, but > would like to pick up a package or two from unstable (namely, Mozilla > 1.2.1, rather than the 1.0.0 that's in stable). However, I'd still > like the machine to be mostly base

apt preferences (was Re: Mozilla 1.2.1)

2002-12-09 Thread Jeff Cours
Ron Johnson wrote: From "apt-cache showpkg mozilla-browser": sid: 1.2-1 sarge: 1.1-1 woody: 1.0.0-0.woody.1 I get something a little different with a fresh update this morning: Package: mozilla-browser Versions: 2:1.2.1-2(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binar