[olug] hint: debian apt, upgrade mixed software

[Brian Wiese]

Just thought I'd share something that I finally figured out with debian
apt, and have been wanting to do for quite a while... install packages in
debian from different distributions (stable/testing/unstable) while
maintaining the rest of my system.

The first time I tried to do this, I edited my /etc/apt/soruces.list to
have unstable sources, instead testing (which I am/was running)... did an
apt-get install pkgname and I think it screwed up my entire system,
upgrading me to unstable or something.

So, I finally found the APT-Howto:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/index.en.html#contents

and how to manage packages of different distros.  So, to upgrade my
current Apache to the latest 1.3.26 version to fix the much disputed
(http://online.securityfocus.com/news/493) chunk handling vulnerability
(http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-17.html) I guess the following
simple line worked!!:

root at host:/# apt-get -u -t unstable install apache

So that does the upgrade and the -t option lets you select the distro to
choose from, though you must have the proper apt sources for the unstable
package.

other common commands:

dpkg -l <pkgname>	= returns info about installed package <pkgname>
apt-show-versions -p <pkgname>  = see what versions of the package are
avail

hope this helps someone else, and upgrade those apache installs! =(

  Brian Wiese | bwiese at cotse.com | aim: unolinuxguru
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