Hello! On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:38:16PM -0400, Darkhaven wrote: > if i add an unstable line to the sources.list, when i do a > dist-upgrade, i'll have an unstable system. there are 2 ways that i've > thought of to possibly get around them (i haven't tried either yet - i > thought i'd test the watters for good ideas): > [...]
Never tried one of your ideas, maybe it will work, but I can't imagine how to handle it. > > i have also thought of just getting the package and compiling them, or > just downloading the package off the ftp site, however if i were to do > that, after a month or so, i'd have to do it again, or the stable > package would become newer than the unstable one (which would be a > pain). not to mention having to get the dependancies. > > ANY ideas? my head hurts from thinking about this, so any and all > ideas would be appreciated. > I needed some unstable and/or testing packages, too. e.g. a newer insmod-package, coz I needed modutils 2.4.0 to build a newer kernel. This is how it worked for me: I added a new source-line in the sources.list: deb-src ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/Linux/debian unstable main non-free contrib This is a server near my home, so maybe you should use another one ;-) But important is only that it is for unstable sources! Then I make an apt-get update to fetch info of the deb-src tree. When finished I use apt-get source packagename --compile to get the package's source and to compile it. (e.g. apt-get source e2fsprogs --compile) apt-get compiles it in the actual directory, so I always start those processes in /tmp When finished you have new deb-file in the directory which you can install with dpkg -i packagename Sometimes, of course, there are other newer packages needed to do so. That's a little pain to get the needed packages all by source. But for my few desires it was good enough. Maybe you'd like to do so...? Best regards, Arvid -- .''`. [Arvid Warnecke] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05323-715724] : :' : [ICQ 55906559] [ www.mad-hatter.de ] [PGP-Subject:"get pgp key"] `. `' Linux 2.4.2 i686 XFree86 Version 4.0.2 Uptime: 1 day, 2:05 `-- BOFH #329: Server depressed, needs Prozak
