On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > I wonder if apt-get could perhaps be enhanced to allow something like: > apt-get --compile --dist=unstable foo > Then you download just the unstable source and compile it locally. > Would that be of help? apt.sources would have to allow lines > somwthing like:
Someday I'll probably add source selection stuff, but in the mean time what most people I know do is set deb-src to unstable ande 'deb' to stable and then operate like that. > should be able to use them, too. (It may do so already, I don't > know.) Not as yet. > I don't know whether this is feasible to implement. Yes, just not today :> Jason

