[vox-tech] debian question - packages from other release

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Peter Jay Salzman (p@dirac.org):

> is there a way to automate the process of installing glade-2 on a woody
> machine other than downloading packages by hand off a debian mirror?

Scan through http://linuxmafia.com/debian/tips, and read the section
about "pinning".  Might be what you're looking for.

You can stop when you reach the sentence "Peter Jay Salzman points out
an elegant way to determine when a package on one's system was last
upgraded".  ;->

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