Re: installing unstable package in woody
From: Arnt Karlsen (arnt_at_c2i.net)
Date: 10/04/03
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Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 18:57:16 +0200 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 13:54:14 +0100,
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote in message
<20031004125413.GA21809@riva.ucam.org>:
> On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:12:18AM +1200, Paul William wrote:
> > There is an unstable/testing package (firehol) that I need to
> > install on a woody system. I do not think there will be any
> > dependency problems. Is this possible? Will dpkg allow me to install
> > a testing package on woody?
>
> dpkg is completely agnostic of distributions; only higher-level
> package acquisition tools care. It does appear that you can install
> this*particular* package from unstable on a stable system, yes.
..it might however whine about dependencies, juuust like rpm ;-)
and as those are met, all goes in in the same install command,
exactly like with rpm. ;-)
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