On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 11:32:47AM -0400, Bruce Miller wrote: > I am running Libranet 1.191 updated to woody with KDE from sid. > The version of apt in woody has been 0.5.3; as of yesterday, it > upgraded to 0.5.4. > > This version of apt has a feature to download a file from a different > release without changing /etc/apt/sources.list. N.B. The feature is > new as of woody; it does not yet exist in the potato version of apt. > The syntax is: ``apt-get install foobar/release" where release is one > of stable|testing|unstable. > > So far, it is not working. If I try to update an existing application, I > get the error message: Release "unstable" for "foobar" was not > found
You need an /etc/apt/preferences file. See the apt_preferences(5) man page. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
