installing selected packages from unstable onto debian stable

[Gilles Fourchet]

The only time I saw these kind of messages  was when I had an Internet 
connection problem.  I believe that means that unstable at York 
University is not reachable.

Try to access to http://debian.yorku.ca/debian via your web browser to see.

Gilles

Michael Coburn wrote:

>Hi Everyone,
>
>I'm trying to install certain packages from unstable (i.e. Request
>Tracker 3.2) onto a debian stable server, and I need apt to satisfy all
>the related dependancies -- upgrading to perl 5.8.4, among others
>(there's about 30 or so to satisfy).
>
>I have tried with the following lines in /etc/apt/sources.list:
>--------
>deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian stable main non-free contrib
>deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
>deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian unstable main non-free contrib
>--------
>but when I run apt-get update I receive errors when apt is merging the
>packages:
>--------
>Reading Package Lists... Error!
>E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
>E: Error occured while processing plptools-dev (NewPackage)
>E: Problem with MergeList
>/var/lib/apt/lists/debian.yorku.ca_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages
>E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
>--------
>I've tried firing apt-get install -t unstable request-tracker3.2 , but
>not surprisingly it tells me that the package cannot be found.
>
>Am I going about this the wrong way, is there some other method to pull
>packages from unstable & satisfying dependancies without upgrading whole
>system to unstable?  I've also considered commenting out the stable line
>in sources.list, but I'm not keen on upgrading other packages than what
>I really need to run Request Tracker 3.2.  I guess I could always pull
>down individual .deb packages for each of the dependancies, but that
>seems terribly inefficient, and prone to error.  Finally I've looked at
>"Tracking a distribution using APT" in the debian reference manual, but
>it's not clear to me the benefit of pursuing this line of action against
>unstable.  Thoughts anyone?
>
>Any help would be appreciated.  I do apologise if this has already been
>covered in a previous posting. I tried to search the list on gmane but
>it kept timing out. :(
>
>Thanks again in advance,
>--
>michael
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