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| Newer page: | version 2 | Last edited on Monday, September 9, 2002 8:31:26 pm | by MattBrown | Revert |
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The code names come from the movie Toy Story, because ex-Debian project leader BrucePerens used to work for Pixar. (He's now [HP]'s [Linux] evangelist.)
Packages are installed into the `testing' directory after they have undergone some degree of testing in unstable. They must be in sync on all architectures where they have been built and must not have dependencies that make them uninstallable; they also have to have fewer release-critical bugs than the versions currently in testing. This way, they ensure (hope) that testing is always close to being a release candidate.
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+! Using Packages from different releases
+If you would like to use packages from a different release to what you are currently running (ie. you want to install the latest nasm package from unstable, but you like to run the rest of your machine on stable) follow these steps.
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+# Add APT::Default-Release "stable"; to apt.conf(5)
+# Make sure you have sources for unstable/testing specified in sources.list(5)
+# Install packages with apt-get install [packagename]=[packageversion]
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+Some notes on the above.
+* When specifing your default release it appears that you can only use "Stable"/"Testing"/"Unstable" don't try and use Woody/Sarge etc it won't work
+* You can find out package versions a packages.debian.org
