Le Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 04:55:33PM +0200, Stefan Schwandter �crivait: > It's really easy to upgrade to gnome2 from unstable following the > instructions on http://people.debian.org/~walters/gnome2.html . But > today i realized that there doesn't seem to be a really convenient way > to upgrade from the experimental gnome2 packages to newer versions in > experimental. If you don't want to update all your packages to > experimental you have to a dry run of apt-get upgrade to look which > packages are newer in experimental and then to explicitely list the > gnome packages on an apt-get install line (f.e. apt-get install eog > gnome-utils gnome-session). > > Or am I missing something here?
Yes. Apt pinning it is called. First you install Gnome2 with something like : $ sudo apt-get install -t experimental gnome Then you have all the Gnome2 packages from experimental. To make sure that they are upgraded with apt-get dist-upgrade (or upgrade) you have to adjust the priority associated to experimental by editing /etc/apt/preferences. Here I have : | Package: * | Pin: release a=experimental | Pin-Priority: 400 ( "| " is just to mark the citation, you should not copy it of course) Now your gnome2 experimental packages will be upgraded automatically during upgrade or dist-upgrade. And any new packages will be installed out of unstable. man apt_preferences for more details. Cheers, -- Rapha�l Hertzog -+- http://www.ouaza.com Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com
