>From: Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com>
>Reply-To: slug@nks.net
>To: SLUG <slug@nks.net>
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu questions
>Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 13:28:39 -0500 (EST)
>
>On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Logan Tygart wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 01:48 -0500, eben1@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
>><snip>
>>>1. How do I use apt-*? I've used strictly rpm since the mid 1990s.
>>
>>http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/12/concise-apt-get-dpkg-primer-for-new.html
>
>Great, thanks. Through that I found (the seemingly excellent)
>http://apt-get.org/; the only thing I need to know to make it really useful
>is what do I do to make a woody/sarge/whatever repository accepted?
>
>- -eben ebQenW1@EtaRmpTabYayU.rIr.OcoPm
It's generally not a good idea to mix versions. What you are talking about
is not only mixing versions, but mixing distributions (Debian & Ubuntu). If
you insist on doing so, read up on apt pinning. The file to modify for this
is /etc/apt/preferences.
-Jonathon
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