Re: Best way to upgrade a single app

From: Ken Bloom (kabloom_at_ucdavis.edu)
Date: 08/21/03

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    On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 03:50:11 +0200, David Corbin wrote:

    > I have a production system, that I do NOT want to migrate to
    > testing/unstable. But, I would like to upgrade one particular package
    > (spamassassin, in this case) to a more recent version.
    >
    > What is the recommended way of doing this? Should I just download and
    > build the upstream package? Can pinning help me?

    I suggest downloading the current sources from testing or unstable and
    rebuilding on your box using dpkg-buildpackage. This should work for 80%
    or more of all packages in testing and unstable. (The other 20% may be
    confused by different dependancies) This way you get .debs for the new
    version that you can manage with dpkg.

    > P.S. I realize that upgrading any package might require upgrades to
    > several other packages.

    Downloading the binary that's alreay in sid/sarge will require updating
    GLIBC, so I suggest not doing this. 

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