installing selected packages from unstable onto debian stable

[Taavi Burns]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:24:41 -0400, Michael Coburn <michael-3aH0qR8MVRD3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Much thanks Lennart, I was hoping you'd be available to comment.
> 
> 1. your suggestion to bump up the cache limit worked.  Thank you. :-)
> 2. Neither backports.org nor apt-get.org have request-tracker. :(
> 
> I've issued the command apt-get install -t unstable request-tracker3.2
> and have received a listing of 33 upgraded packages, and 63 new ones
> (Request Tracker uses over 160 different perl modules!).  95% of the
> packages are perl-related, so I'm ok with mixing these versions on this
> server.  The only two that concern me are upgrades to:
> libc6
> libc6-dev

When I tried upgrading libc from stable on my netwinder it left
nothing but errors
and a totally unuseable system in the end.  I was overjoyed when I
recently found
an 'unstable' installer, which worked (after tweaking, so that it
would actually boot).

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