Re: [debian] sid/squeeze on freerunner

2009-06-23 Thread Brian C
Robin Paulson wrote: > yes, but the packages i need require a long chain of dependencies from > sid/squeeze, and i don't want to do that - i'll get a broken system > very quickly. i'd rather get the whole OS > > is there way in lenny to reliably upgrade to sid/squeeze? > > i've heard the idea of

Re: [debian] sid/squeeze on freerunner

2009-06-23 Thread Vincent MEURISSE
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 02:43:11 pm Robin Paulson wrote: > is there way in lenny to reliably upgrade to sid/squeeze? > > i've heard the idea of changing all instances of 'lenny' to 'sid' in > the sources.list file, but that sounds very flaky This is the way to go. If you want to keep multiple sour

Re: [debian] sid/squeeze on freerunner

2009-06-23 Thread Marcel
Am Dienstag, 23. Juni 2009 14:43:11 schrieb Robin Paulson: > i've heard the idea of changing all instances of 'lenny' to 'sid' in > the sources.list file, but that sounds very flaky That's exactly the way to go normally although I don't know if you're going to get dependency problems when dist-up

Re: [debian] sid/squeeze on freerunner

2009-06-23 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> yes, but the packages i need require a long chain of dependencies from > sid/squeeze, and i don't want to do that - i'll get a broken system > very quickly. i'd rather get the whole OS > > is there way in lenny to reliably upgrade to sid/squeeze? Officially, Debian supports only upgrades between

Re: [debian] sid/squeeze on freerunner

2009-06-23 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/6/24 Nikita V. Youshchenko : > If running debian on freerunner, you may use aptitude or apt-get to install > whatever package from sid (or testing, or whatever depending of your apt > sources configuration). yes, but the packages i need require a long chain of dependencies from sid/squeeze, a

Re: [debian] sid/squeeze on freerunner

2009-06-23 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> hi all, > there are some versions of packages (a lot) in sid/squeeze which i'd > like to use on my freerunner - does anyone know if there is a > simple-ish process for installing either? could the debian install > script be adapted to do it? If running debian on freerunner, you may use aptitude

[debian] sid/squeeze on freerunner

2009-06-23 Thread Robin Paulson
hi all, there are some versions of packages (a lot) in sid/squeeze which i'd like to use on my freerunner - does anyone know if there is a simple-ish process for installing either? could the debian install script be adapted to do it? cheers ___ Openmoko