<quote who="David"> > A supplimentary question about sources lists: > > If the LaMont source has postfix and the official debian site presumably > has an earlier version of postfix, then is apt-get smart enough to sort > out the latest one? ie: do I just do <apt-get install postfix> and it > works as one would hope?
That's precisely what apt is best at. And if you need extra packages - or particular new versions of installed packages, it will sort all of that out for you too. ;-) (In this case, postfix needs newer versions of BIND libraries, so apt will happily pull those in from LaMont's repo. apt relies on information provided by the packages and repo package lists, so there are quality control issues with unofficial repositories - but you can generally trust repos made by Debian developers, particularly if they maintain backports for their own packages as LaMont does.) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ "It is said that there are only six jokes in the world, and I can assure you that we can only broadcast three of them..." - John Watt, the BBC's Head of Variety in the 30's -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
