On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 02:27:27PM +0000, Adam Bower wrote:
NuTTeR -- Not Entered -- wrote:
I just want to upgrade autoconf and automake, ive got autoconf 1.4 and need 1.6. I dont want to break the packageing system so id like to upgrade via apt(well dselect but same backend) but i only want these packages and any that they require i dont want to complety upgrade everything though.
You can look at the apt how-to http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-default-version to see how to mix packages, and read below it for information on "pinning" (which didn't work for me BTW, but I didn't try too hard) :)
I got this to work, I think. Here's my /etc/apt/preferences:
X-comment: ============================ Track testing as default Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 800
X-comment: ============================ Make unstable available all the time Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 70
Then use `apt-get install autoconf=1.6`. The main other useful syntax is autoconf/unstable.
Note I don't really understand the above. Pin-Priority's have lots of significant cutoff points and I'm not even convinced that a higher priority always means the package is more likely to be used (although of course otherwise would be insane).
Alexis