[aklug] Re: Another question about Debian repos

Download src, compile, checkinstall, install...More painful but you'll learn more.

2 cents,
--eddie

> From: gomadtroll@acsalaska.net
> To: aklug@aklug.org
> Subject: [aklug] Re: Another question about Debian repos
> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:14:55 -0800
>
> On Friday 10 October 2008, Christopher Howard wrote:
> > First I wanted to say thanks everyone for all the help on various
> > issues. I'd like to specifically mention the advice on the Nvidia
> > drivers. I tried the lastest binary and it installed without a
> > problem. Also, thanks for the info on streaming servers, and those
> > Icecast config files. I'm in the process of looking all that over,
> > although I've temporarily met my needs with a cheap hack: I put my
> > music files on a directory of one of my public servers, and then used
> > simple scripts on my other machines that mount the directory as sshfs,
> > so I can listen to the music from anywhere using any music player.
> > (Overhead is a bit high -- with all that encryption/decryption going
> > on. Probably should've used FTP.)
> > I've been researching more into Debian's release cycle, to better
> > acquaint myself with the distro. I like how they do things, with all
> > the checks and testing. That stability and security is important to me
> > (coming from some other distros whose repositories tended to be filled
> > with a lot of buggy packages) even if the release cycle is a bit slow.
> >
> > I'm using the Lenny sources right now, and after Lenny is officially
> > released I'll probably stick with Lenny until the next stable release.
> > But here's my question: What if in the future there are one or two
> > packages from testing or sid that I'd like to try, but I don't want the
> > rest of my system relying on those branches? For example, say I wanted
> > the lastest Amarok features, or I really needed one package that just
> > wasn't available in stable. Do I need to download and manually install
> > those packages from off of the Internet, or is there a way I can
> > install those from the official repos without moving my entire system
> > out of stable?
>
> You can use 'apt -pinning', I think that is how it is referenced. Read the
> following link , esp starting at section 3.8 on how it works. Or you can
> use a source entry in sources.list and build the package. If you are
> lucky it won't require any major changes to your system. Use the Debian
> tools do do all this, no need, and imho, not advisable, to dl source and
> compile from the cli.
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html
>
> --
> Peace
>
> Greg Madden
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