Bug#27100: marked as done (apt: Better support for project/experimental)
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From: <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>
Subject: apt: Better support for project/experimental
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Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 17:11:04 +1000
Package: apt
Version: 0.1.6
Severity: wishlist
Hello world,
While apt seems to be able to get files from experimental without any
problems, it also tries to auto-upgrade anything that's in there (in
particular gcc).
Ideally, some sort of "don't auto-upgrade" flag for distributions would
be nice, however in the meantime, would it be possible to add a flag to
apt-get that lets you use an alternate sources.list in addition to or
instead of your current sources.list?
That way I could have:
/etc/apt/sources.list -- appropriate setup for slink
/etc/apt/sources.list.experimental
deb http://foo/debian project/experimental/
And I could use something like:
apt-get --source /etc/apt/sources.list.experimental \
install coda-client
to update coda-client.deb, and just:
apt-get dist-upgrade
to update everything else.
Cheers,
aj
-- System Information
Debian Release: slink
Kernel Version: Linux azure 2.0.33 #1 Fri May 15 19:45:40 EST 1998 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.0.7t-1 The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files)
ii libstdc++2.8 2.90.29-0.6 The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)
--- Begin /etc/apt/sources.list (modified conffile)
deb http://ftp.questnet.net.au/debian-non-US hamm/binary-i386/
deb http://ftp.questnet.net.au/debian-non-US slink/binary-i386/
deb http://ftp.questnet.net.au/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.questnet.net.au/debian slink main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.questnet.net.au/debian project/experimental/
--- End /etc/apt/sources.list
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