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Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5
From: |
Federico Beffa |
Subject: |
Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5 |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:09:27 +0200 |
David Pirotte <address@hidden> writes:
> Hello,
>
>> As far as I inderstand the Debian package manager mantains a package
>> database. This is the place where it looks for installed packages. So,
>> if I have a newer version of guile which is not installed through the
>> package manager, the package manager will not know about it.
>
> even if you are locked in a debian stable, you can, and you should in the
> case of
> guile really, install packages from testing, unstable and even experimental
> [which
> is not recommended unless you know what you are doing of course].
>
> So:
>
> update your /etc/apt/sources.list, add a line with testing source
> update you /etc/preferences
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=stable
> Pin-Priority: 800
>
> Package: guile
> Pin: release a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 600
>
> aptitude update
> aptitude
> search for the guile-2.0 package aptitude entry
> press enter [Menu: Package -> information]
> select and install the testing version [2.0.11+1-1 as of today]
>
> with that setting, aptitude|debian future updates will track and offer you to
> update
> the installed guile-2.0 testing package, while keeping everything else on
> stable...
> there are doc about that, duckduckgo for it...
>
You convinced me that I should be fine using guile from testing.
I've added the following lines in sources.list:
deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ testing main
deb-src http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ testing main
created /etc/apt/preferences.d/00-stable containing:
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 800
and created /etc/apt/preferences.d/20-guile containing:
Package: guile
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 600
Now, before installing guile from testing, I wanted to check if I still
get no updatable packages as a moment before doing the change:
aptitude update
aptitude full-upgrade
This tells me that the package libxnvctrl0 can be update. If I remove
the testing entry from sources.list, then I get no updates. So, something
is coming in from testing.
Am I doing something wrong?
Regards,
Fede
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