[PLUG] running a mixed Debian system

Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca
Sun Nov 2 03:06:02 UTC 2003


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On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 10:46:33AM -0800, Derek Loree wrote:
> As an example, earlier this week, I did a "Sarge" install.  I did the
> usual install a minimal Woody first, then change the sources.list to
> point to Sarge instead of Stable, updated, then started installing
> software.  Evolution wouldn't install, it had an unmet dependency.  When
> I added "Stable" to the sources.list, the missing pieces were found and
> Evolution was installed.

That is the nature of testing, though I would strongly recommend
pinning to testing and using unstable instead of stable for a source.
Less likely to run into twisted breakages that have been known to
result from mixing stable with anything newer.

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