On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Tim wrote: >> 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.
Thanks for the link. I looked in lenny-backports for the packages I need, but they're still below the minimum version level I need (while Debian testing has the required version). I'll definitely keep the backports option open for future reference! -- Paul Heinlein <> [email protected] <> http://www.madboa.com/ _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
