[Tfug] backporting packages with Woody

Andre Lehovich andrel at U.Arizona.EDU
Mon Nov 24 22:49:13 MST 2003


On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Claude Rubinson wrote:
> What you're talking about is maintaining a mixed
> stable/testing|unstable system.

No -- Scott is talking about using Stable with selected
backports (e.g. from http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/packages/).
So he'd still have Stable's glibc but newer apps.  In a
hybrid stable/testing system you're be forced to upgrade
libraries in order to get the newer apps.

--Andre






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