extra apt sources, backports etc.

From: A. Loonstra (arnaud_at_nospam.sphaero.org)
Date: 07/30/03

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    Hi,

    I've recently installed woody on a test system. I added the Gnome 2.2
    backport and the Xfree 4.2 backport. I added the following to sources.list

    # XFree 4.2
    deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free
    deb-src http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free
    # Gnome 2.2
    deb
    ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports/woo
    dy gnome2.2/
    deb-src
    ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports
    /woody gnome2.2/

    Installation went fine but I ran into som problems when aptitude
    suddenly wanted to remove a lot of packages. I managed to fix that but
    aptitude didn't automaticly fix broken dependencies and I had to do that
    by hand. Kernel 2.6-test2 came out and I thought let's try this. But I
    had to install gcc and suddenly had different version installed; gcc
    (2.95) gcc-3.0-base gcc-3.3-base. The kernel doesn't want to compile
    telling me lots of includes are missing (fixdep.c). I'm having apt
    horrors, I guess, and am thinking of reinstalling the whole systems (I
    hate it when it's out of control)

    My question remains what's the best way to manage unofficial backports
    without having much trouble. I how do others do this?

    Arnaud. 

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