On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Cheryl Homiak wrote: hi, > Well, in my case, I had been told to take out the lines in my sources.list > that didn't pertain to the testing files or security; when I restored the > original sources.list that still had the test file locations put first, I > could then access packages that don't have an upgraded version in testing > or unstable. This at least appears to give me the best of both worlds and > doesn't appear to be downgrading anything. Be carefull for dependencies, it may work but it also could mean that by another package it explicitly needs i.e. a certain libc6 version wheilst you have a newer version already installed. I suggest running apt-get always with -u to see which packages are beeing installed/keptback/removed/upgraded then you can easily see what it is about to do and if that is not going to break your system. > I don't know that'd I'd want to do unstable at this point, but I like > doing the testing version, pitfalls notwithstanding. If it is a security-critical system (like a firewall/gateway is), then don't even run testing ;) > Cheryl > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- slainte mhaith (good health), slainte (cheers) Uisce Beatha (water of live/health) ----------- Andor Demarteau E-mail: ademarte@students.cs.uu.nl student computer science www: http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/~ademarte/ Utrecht University irc: see webpage for details ----------- Believe in yourself, know what you want, and make it happen!