Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > pe, 2005-10-14 kello 00:30 +0200, Frank Küster kirjoitti: >> Well, the problem is that dist-upgrade from sid to experimental does >> just nothing, although there is a newer version of tetex-extra (and some >> of its dependencies) in experimental: > > Oh, right, that. experimental's Release file tells apt-get to not > upgrade to it automatically. I'm not sure it makes sense for piuparts to > override that: I would assume one usually only wants one or a few > specific packages from experimental, not all newer packages from there. > It would seem to me to be simpler to just download the packages one is > intereated and feed them to piuparts as local files (remove the -a > option, then give the *.deb files on the command line, instead of > package names only). > > Would that work for you?
Yes, I think it would. I suggest that you document this somewhere, e.g. like this: --- piuparts.1.orig 2005-10-14 09:18:30.323488283 +0200 +++ piuparts.1 2005-10-14 09:21:43.459979509 +0200 @@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ compared with the state without the packages having been installed. This test can be quite slow to execute. + +Note that this does not work with experimental, because apt-get does +not automatically upgrade to that "release". To test a particular +package or group of packages in experimental, use test 2. .PP Command line arguments are names of package files by default (e.g., \fBpiuparts_1.0\-1_all.deb\fR) or Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
