[vox-tech] mixing packages from debian distros

vox-tech@lists.lugod.org vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:48:46 -0700


sure, it's debian.  you can do anything.

do a google search for "apt-pinning for beginners".

pete


On Wed 10 Sep 03, 10:40 AM, Charles McLaughlin <cmclaughlin@ucdavis.edu> said:
> Is there a prefered way to install a package from Debian Unstable on the
> Testing distro?  Perhaps a way to specify this via apt-get?
> 
> I'm running Testing and want to upgrade Evolution to the version in
> Unstable.  I was going to switch my sources.list to unstable, then install
> just Evolution, but I was wondering if there is a different way to grab
> just the Unstable Evolution and anything it depends on without entirely
> switching to the Unstable distro.
> 
> Thanks for any advice!
> 
> Charles