ocl wrote:
Hi,
I am new to this list.
I wanted to install the latest available Debian packages
but Debian keeps trying to install the already-in-distro
versions. And, unless either I use apt pinning to install
everything from experimental for the whole Debian, or I
install the package manually, it seems there is no way I
can install DbMail v2.x --of course,
I don't understand your problem.
If you add the experimental repository to your sources.list and you run apt-get install dbmail-mysql doesn't
it pickup the experimental package? It works for me.
I don't have any pinning setup though, so maybe you have to be explicit and use apt-get install -t
experimental dbmail-mysql
I could do it manually, but I would have to do that manually
for all the upgrades.
Simpler solution would be to be able to use apt pinning
for DbMail only, but when I asked at debian list and I am
told that it is not possible since DbMail's packages are
made available in 'Trivial Repository' format (i.e containing
absolute path).
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/repository-howto/repository-howto.html
I do realize it is not very polite to look a gift horse in
the teeth, but I wonder if it could be possible to alter
the repository
That's not an option. The current repository is maintainted by mini-dinstall, which means no overhead for me
at all. All I have to do is run dupload on a freshly build package. And it looks like mini-dinstall doesn't
provide automatic repositories.
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