> I'd like to selectively upgrade some packages in Debian lenny (stable) > to the versions currently in the testing release. > > Here's what I've done: > > 1. Made sure sources.list has deb and deb-src entries for both > lenny and testing. > > 2. Added 'APT::Default-Release "5.0*";' to /etc/apt/apt.conf. > > Now I want to do "aptitude -t testing install pkg1 pkg2 pkgN". > > Is that the best practice for such things? I've read a bit about doing > pinning in /etc/apt/preferences, but that didn't seem to provide the > right package set when I ran apt-get in test (-s) mode.
You might be better off using something like debian backports ( http://www.backports.org/ ) for that. When I do stuff like this, I commonly just download and install the necessary .debs manually, but they probably have swankier ways to handle dependencies. HTH, tim _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
