Re: [TCLUG:20018] apt-get across distributions

[Jim Crumley <crumley@belka.space.umn.edu>]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 11:46:56AM -0500, Philip C Mendelsohn wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, John R. Sheets wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday, August 02, 2000, Philip C Mendelsohn <mend0070@tc.umn.edu> wrote:
> > > Edit sources.list.  I just did that to install glibc6 on my slink+
> > > box.  I should get off my duff and do a dist-upgrade, but work has my
> > > blinders on to doing much that doesn't have to do with the project I'm
> > > working on.
> > 
> > Is there an official mechanism for that, or do you have to hack it in,
> > do the install, then hack it back out?  If it's an official option, how
> > do I tell it to only install/update certain packages from unstable?

Yeah, you have to hack it in and out by hand.
 
> Edit your sources.list to include unstable, then 

I'm not usually one to pick nits, but then you should:
"apt-get update" 
to get the package listing from unstable.

then:
> apt-get install 'package1, package2, ... '
> 
> It will go find the most current package automagically.

Then, if you don't want to get other packages, change your
sources.list back to frozen and re-run apt-get update. 

Its a little hackish, but it works nice ;)

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