apt-get question

[Aravind Gottipati]

Check out apt pinning.  It does exactly what you need.

http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html
http://www.argon.org/~roderick/apt-pinning.html
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-pin

HTH

Aravind

sometime around Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 12:54:35PM -0600
Brian Densmore wrote:
> Any way to tell apt-get to get something from "testing"
> if you are running "stable". I suppose I could download
> it and dpkg it. Although I'm not real comfortable doing
> that just yet. I don't want to upgrade to "testing", but
> I do want this one package that is only in "testing".
> While I'm on the subject what are the downsides of "mixing"
> package levels? Will it break apt-get?
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian
>