Re: mixing stable and testing

2004-01-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 06:31:24PM -0800, David Rothenberger wrote: > >>I obviously want to track stable (since this server needs to be > >>secure), but there are a few packages that I want from testing or > >>unstable. How to do this? Hi Dave, from those at debian-on-high, it is recommended to fo

Re: mixing stable and testing

2004-01-26 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 06:31:24PM -0800, David Rothenberger wrote: > IIUC, that messages describes how to install binary packages. In fact, > the whole thread seemed to focus on that. The Debian Reference (section > 6.4.10) suggests that it's bett

Re: mixing stable and testing

2004-01-26 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 06:12:32PM -0800, David Rothenberger wrote: > I obviously want to track stable (since this server needs to be secure), > but there are a few packages that I want from testing or unstable. How to > do this? Short answer: You

Re: mixing stable and testing

2004-01-26 Thread Adam Aube
On Monday 26 January 2004 09:31 pm, David Rothenberger wrote: > The Debian Reference (section 6.4.10) suggests that it's better to > compile from source packages, so you don't end up upgrading libc, for > example. Is this really true? Upgrading libc on stable with libc on testing could easily bre

Re: mixing stable and testing

2004-01-26 Thread David Rothenberger
I obviously want to track stable (since this server needs to be secure), but there are a few packages that I want from testing or unstable. How to do this? This message from the recent archives should be helpful: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/debian-user-200401/msg06198.html IIUC, th

Re: mixing stable and testing

2004-01-26 Thread Adam Aube
On Monday 26 January 2004 09:12 pm, David Rothenberger wrote: > I obviously want to track stable (since this server needs to be > secure), but there are a few packages that I want from testing or > unstable. How to do this? This message from the recent archives should be helpful: http://lists.de

mixing stable and testing

2004-01-26 Thread David Rothenberger
I'm new to Debian. I'm replacing an old RH firewall/router/server with Woody. I obviously want to track stable (since this server needs to be secure), but there are a few packages that I want from testing or unstable. How to do this? I've read that the safest way to go is to get the sources f

Re: mixing stable and testing debian packages.

2003-09-26 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Louie Miranda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030926 09:06]: > Is it possible to mix stable and testing deb packages?. Theoreticaly yes, practicaly maybe. Many packages from testing depend on packages, which don't exist in stable, or on newer ones, so updating some components to testing may lead you very

mixing stable and testing debian packages.

2003-09-26 Thread Louie Miranda
Is it possible to mix stable and testing deb packages?. I mean, ex: I have libc6 2.2.5-11.5 and i want to make it libc6 2.3.1-1 This happend to me when i downloaded mod_security.c http://packages.debian.org/testing/web/libapache-mod-security.html And installed it using dpkg -i libapache-mod-secu

Re: mixing stable and testing

2003-09-07 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 01:28:57AM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > > # dpkg --force-remove-essential --force-remove-reinstreq --force-depends > -r syslog-ng > # dpkg -i metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb > > use force options with extreme care, but they are occasionally > useful...(Only one of the force o

Re: mixing stable and testing

2003-09-06 Thread Travis Crump
Vikki Roemer wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:14:02PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: In same directory: dpkg-source -x metalog_0.7beta-3.dsc cd metalog_0.7beta dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot cd .. dpkg -i metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb Ok, I did all that, but when I try to run dpkg -i, I get the

Re: mixing stable and testing

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Vikki Roemer wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:14:02PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: In same directory: dpkg-source -x metalog_0.7beta-3.dsc cd metalog_0.7beta dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot cd .. dpkg -i metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb Ok, I did all that, but when I try to run dpkg -i, I get the f

Re: mixing stable and testing

2003-09-06 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:14:02PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: > > In same directory: > > dpkg-source -x metalog_0.7beta-3.dsc > cd metalog_0.7beta > dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot > cd .. > dpkg -i metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb Ok, I did all that, but when I try to run dpkg -i, I get the foll

Re: mixing stable and testing

2003-09-04 Thread Russell Shaw
Vikki Roemer wrote: On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 04:27:36PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: You would need to setup a /etc/apt/preferences file, add testing to yor sources.list, and use pinning. Even so libc6 (upgrade) will be a depend on anythig from Testing. For what you want, it may be safer/easier to

Re: mixing stable and testing

2003-09-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 01:36:21PM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 04:27:36PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > > You would need to setup a /etc/apt/preferences file, add testing to > > yor sources.list, and use pinning. Even so libc6 (upgrade) will be a > > depend on anythig from Te

Re: mixing stable and testing

2003-09-04 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 04:27:36PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > > You would need to setup a /etc/apt/preferences file, add testing to yor > sources.list, and use pinning. Even so libc6 (upgrade) will be a depend > on anythig from Testing. For what you want, it may be safer/easier to > use 'apt-s

Re: mixing stable and testing

2003-09-02 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 01 September 2003 04:03 pm, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Hi > I was wondering if it's possible to run a few testing apps on a > (otherwise) stable system. See, I'm running a server so I don't want > to run testing, per se, but I want metalog and te

mixing stable and testing

2003-09-02 Thread Vikki Roemer
Hi I was wondering if it's possible to run a few testing apps on a (otherwise) stable system. See, I'm running a server so I don't want to run testing, per se, but I want metalog and testing's gnupg (I'm having problems with stable's gnupg and my keyring, so I'm hoping going back to testing's gnup