On 2004-02-05, Thomas Hood penned: > On 04 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there any way to tell my system that I only want certain packages >> to come from this source? I guess my fear is that someone will put a >> bleeding-edge version of a package into the repository I'm using for >> other reasons, and now suddenly I'm pulling this non-official package >> into my system, rather than the one from the official debian >> repository. > > If you list only Debian sources in /etc/apt/sources.list then you will > get only Debian packages. >
Yes, but I *want* to get the updates for the few packages that I want that originate elsewhere -- I just don't want to accidentally suck in alternate packages without realizing that that's what I'm doing. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

