On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:21:55PM -0800, Sean Ellis wrote: > I have been using the stable branch for my systems. Yesterday I > discovered that a package that I need must come from the testing branch. > I was wondering how to include this among the packages to be added. Put > the deb file and dependencies in the repository defined in fai.conf > perhaps? a package from testing will nearly never install into a stable system, mostly because of versioned shared library dependencies.
The only way to make this work cleanly is a "backport" (you can find a list of existing backports on www.apt-get.org). making a backport yourself is a non-trivial task in most cases and you should at least have basic experience in building debian packages. -- c u henning
