Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-08-23 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:21:27 +0200, go...@dobosevic.com in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: So, I think the best solution is to ask developers to upload swfdec-mozilla to debian-volatile and to support it there too. What do you guys think? I'm think you are right. This days most of end

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-08-21 Thread Alexandru Cardaniuc
Aniruddha mailingdotl...@gmail.com writes: I would like to install the latest version swfdec-mozilla (because it offers autoplay). I intent to track stable as closely as possible. As far I can tell there are four possibilities to achieve this: 1) Temporary enable testing/unstable

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-08-21 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
So, I think the best solution is to ask developers to upload swfdec-mozilla to debian-volatile and to support it there too. What do you guys think? I'm think you are right. This days most of end user's can't live without this things (messenger, flash etc.)and they very often change. --

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 09:50:27AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon,18.May.09, 16:28:55, Barclay, Daniel wrote: Michael M. Moore wrote: ... mcu...@drifter:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Default-Release stable; APT::Cache-Limit 33554432; At some time in the past,

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,23.May.09, 19:59:31, Osamu Aoki wrote: Has that been fixed yet? Short answer: No. Long answer: see #97564, #254716, #423234 and #509471. If not, how can one avoid having aptitude try to upgrade you to a newly release version (before you more directly choose to)? I'd

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,18.May.09, 16:28:55, Barclay, Daniel wrote: Michael M. Moore wrote: ... mcu...@drifter:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Default-Release stable; APT::Cache-Limit 33554432; At some time in the past, APT::Default-Release worked only with the status-based release names (stable,

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-20 Thread Aniruddha
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:23 AM, martin f krafft madd...@debian.org wrote: Do you happen to know where I can' find more info about this process? There'll be a large chapter on this in my forthcoming book. Until then, I suggest you check out the stuff I wrote about pbuilder in the current

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Aniruddha mailingdotl...@gmail.com [2009.05.20.0852 +0200]: Looking forward to the release of your book :) What about rebuilding packages with apt-get source / dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b? Is this also possible (instead of building a Debian package from scratch)? If you do

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,17.May.09, 14:06:47, Michael M. Moore wrote: I use a pretty conservative pinning, more conservative than what is given on the wiki. Mine is taken from Martin Krafft's book The Debian System, recently recommended on this list: mcu...@drifter:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com [2009.05.18.0847 +0200]: The Default-Release option in apt.conf will set stable's priority to 990, why are you changing it again to 900? Two stitches are better than one? ;) In general, I'd say to prefer /etc/apt/preferences over apt.conf,

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-18 Thread Aniruddha
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:57 AM, martin f krafft madd...@debian.org wrote: By the way, even though one can mix testing and unstable, I suggest to avoid that. http://backports.org contains packages backported from testing and compiled for the stable distribution, which integrate better with

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Aniruddha mailingdotl...@gmail.com [2009.05.18.0954 +0200]: Thanks for the answer. And what about downloading an occasional package from packages.debian.org? (like the latest swfdec) is this more preferable then apt-pinning? This is more or less identical to pinning, except you are

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-18 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Michael M. Moore wrote: ... mcu...@drifter:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Default-Release stable; APT::Cache-Limit 33554432; At some time in the past, APT::Default-Release worked only with the status-based release names (stable, testing, etc.) but didn't work (and didn't report any error

What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-17 Thread Aniruddha
I would like to install the latest version swfdec-mozilla (because it offers autoplay). I intent to track stable as closely as possible. As far I can tell there are four possibilities to achieve this: 1) Temporary enable testing/unstable repositories and install the program 2) Download *.deb from

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-17 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/17/09 09:40, Aniruddha wrote: I would like to install the latest version swfdec-mozilla (because it offers autoplay). I intent to track stable as closely as possible. As far I can tell there are four possibilities to achieve this: 1)

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-17 Thread Aniruddha
Harry Rickards wrote: On 05/17/09 09:40, Aniruddha wrote: I would like to install the latest version swfdec-mozilla (because it offers autoplay). I intent to track stable as closely as possible. As far I can tell there are four possibilities to achieve this: 1) Temporary enable

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-17 Thread JoeHill
Aniruddha wrote: I would like to install the latest version swfdec-mozilla (because it offers autoplay). I intent to track stable as closely as possible. As far I can tell there are four possibilities to achieve this: 1) Temporary enable testing/unstable repositories and install the

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-17 Thread Aniruddha
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 4:38 PM, JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com wrote: Aniruddha wrote: I would like to install the latest version swfdec-mozilla (because it offers autoplay). I intent to track stable as closely as possible. As far I can tell there are four possibilities to achieve this: 1)

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-17 Thread JoeHill
Aniruddha wrote: On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 4:38 PM, JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com wrote: Aniruddha wrote: I would like to install the latest version swfdec-mozilla (because it offers autoplay). I intent to track stable as closely as possible. As far I can tell there are four

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-17 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 21:50 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 4:38 PM, JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com wrote: Aniruddha wrote: I would like to install the latest version swfdec-mozilla (because it offers autoplay). I intent to track stable as closely as possible. As far I can