aptitude and backports with the same name as unstable packages

2004-06-25 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, 1) I have a woody box where i installed some backports of X and other programs. When i started aptitude, it gave me a lot of broken packages because it wanted to upgrade the X packages from unstable ( i have unstable sources in my package list too) and marked the packages as broken. Anyway, i

Re: aptitude and backports with the same name as unstable packages

2004-06-25 Thread Ricky Clarkson
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:28:48 +0200 (CEST), Benedict Verheyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyway i can view the location or to install from a particular location? apt-get install package/unstable I guess. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: aptitude and backports with the same name as unstable packages

2004-06-25 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, 2) The version of checkinstall and installwatch from backports.org don't contain a string in the version name so their version is the same as the version from unstable. When going to the package discription i can only see for instance for checkinstall p 1.5.3-3 p 1.5.3-1 So i can't

Re: aptitude and backports with the same name as unstable packages

2004-06-25 Thread Benedict Verheyen
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:28:48 +0200 (CEST), Benedict Verheyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyway i can view the location or to install from a particular location? apt-get install package/unstable I guess. No, this will not work as the version from unstable and backports is the same