[wellylug] debian q's

David Zanetti dave2 at wetstring.net
Thu Mar 25 21:56:45 NZST 2004


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On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Alex wrote:

> with debian, i'm aware there is "stable" , "testing" and "unstable".
> 
> is it possible to mix and match packages from the 3 release types? or 
> does one generally never do this?

You probably want to avoid doing this between stable and <anything
else>. It's less problematic between testing and unstable (because they
are much closer in terms of depends and what things are compiled against).

Most people want to run bits of testing or unstable to get the "latest and
greatest", in which case if this is a home system I would honestly just
run testing entirely instead. (My primary workstation at work is testing,
and my PVR is based on testing as well.. Both get a fairly decent workout
and I've had few problems.)

Alternatively, use backports. You can either do this yourself (can be a
lot of work), or use someone elses (eg, www.backports.org). I'm using a
backports.org version of Asterisk on my gateway box, and seems okay. 

> b)
> 
> is it possible to instruct apt-get to only get new packages from the 
> apt security mirror but not the regular packages?

Easiest is probably just to not define the regular packages in
/etc/apt/sources.list.

I've not done much work with debian mass installations, so I'll leave the
third question to someone else. :)

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