Debian question - stuck between sid and experimental on gnome

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Thu Feb 5 17:06:59 UTC 2009


On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 04:14:56PM -0500, ted leslie wrote:
> i am evailing sabayon/gentoo and now  sidux/debian,
> i wanted to go with a constantly updaing distro, that doesnt have fixed release cycle (that is just so BAD),
> and as cool as gentoo is (and sabayon), if i can get what I want out of debian, and then still benifit
> in certain areas from the ubuntu community (resources), that might be my best bet .. but I am 
> just so feed up with disto release cycles, and fixed release cycles, and debian "sid" might be "the answer",
> (i definitely dont mind weekly software updates (that i choose), in fact there kinda fun, plus picking selectively from unstable, and
> even experimental, and hopefully being able to back out, but i will backup my own stable mixture just to be sure),
> so  I have a question regarding package management for debian,
> that i am sure one of the many debian users on this list might know the answer,
> 
> i installed sidux, to get me "sid"
> and i have installed some stuff from "experimental" repo.
> and of course stuff from the main "sid" unstable repo (by default),
> now i want gnome 2.24.1
> the sid is 2.22.2~5
> and the experimental is
> 2.24.2~2
> 
> but i would like 2.24.1
> 
> now I could survive with 2.22.2 but i know there will be times when i want something
> more bleeding edge then whats in 'sid' but not as bleeding edge and perhaps totally broken
> as is in "experimental" repo.
> 
> how can i selectively grab 2.24.1 ?
> now this might be a bad example, because maybe debian never packaged ".deb" the 2.24.1 version,
> but even if that is the case (with this gnome example), it certainly would popup up
> with other packages, where one would want to grab that version thats "in the middle".
> I read something about a lock feature in aptitude, to not allow a update to something you
> fix/lock to a certain version, but in this case I don't want to do that.
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> i know i could tar ball ./configure/make it, but.... would be better to do it purely through apt ? to keep
> things happy?
> 
> 
> # sid (unstable) (gnome): The GNOME Desktop Environment, with extra components
> 1:2.22.2~5: all
> # experimental (gnome): The GNOME Desktop Environment, with extra components
> 1:2.24.2~2: all 

apt-get install -t experimental gnome

or apt-get install gnome=1:2.24.2~2

I am sure the debian developers would tell you that you have no business
playing with experimental if you didn't already know that. :)

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