[debian] sid/squeeze on freerunner

2009-06-23 Thread Robin Paulson
hi all, there are some versions of packages (a lot) in sid/squeeze which i'd like to use on my freerunner - does anyone know if there is a simple-ish process for installing either? could the debian install script be adapted to do it? cheers ___

Re: [debian] sid/squeeze on freerunner

2009-06-23 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
hi all, there are some versions of packages (a lot) in sid/squeeze which i'd like to use on my freerunner - does anyone know if there is a simple-ish process for installing either? could the debian install script be adapted to do it? If running debian on freerunner, you may use aptitude or

Re: [debian] sid/squeeze on freerunner

2009-06-23 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/6/24 Nikita V. Youshchenko yo...@debian.org: If running debian on freerunner, you may use aptitude or apt-get to install whatever package from sid (or testing, or whatever depending of your apt sources configuration). yes, but the packages i need require a long chain of dependencies from

Re: [debian] sid/squeeze on freerunner

2009-06-23 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
yes, but the packages i need require a long chain of dependencies from sid/squeeze, and i don't want to do that - i'll get a broken system very quickly. i'd rather get the whole OS is there way in lenny to reliably upgrade to sid/squeeze? Officially, Debian supports only upgrades between

Re: [debian] sid/squeeze on freerunner

2009-06-23 Thread Marcel
Am Dienstag, 23. Juni 2009 14:43:11 schrieb Robin Paulson: i've heard the idea of changing all instances of 'lenny' to 'sid' in the sources.list file, but that sounds very flaky That's exactly the way to go normally although I don't know if you're going to get dependency problems when

Re: [debian] sid/squeeze on freerunner

2009-06-23 Thread Vincent MEURISSE
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 02:43:11 pm Robin Paulson wrote: is there way in lenny to reliably upgrade to sid/squeeze? i've heard the idea of changing all instances of 'lenny' to 'sid' in the sources.list file, but that sounds very flaky This is the way to go. If you want to keep multiple sources

Re: [debian] sid/squeeze on freerunner

2009-06-23 Thread Brian C
Robin Paulson wrote: yes, but the packages i need require a long chain of dependencies from sid/squeeze, and i don't want to do that - i'll get a broken system very quickly. i'd rather get the whole OS is there way in lenny to reliably upgrade to sid/squeeze? i've heard the idea of