What programs will be updated in in warty?

[Scott James Remnant]

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 17:08 -0500, s.roman wrote:

> Would it be possible to just select some updated packages but keep
> your ubuntu system warty? I mean like using firefox 1.0 package from
> hoary, in warty? Unless they are very incompatible with each other,
> that would seem like the perfect solution for me... Only updating
> certain selected packages. There might already be a way to do this,
> but I don't know of one, since I'm pretty much a linux n00b.
> 
Certainly, but hoary is a development branch so anything you install
from it is far more likely to cause damage to your system than the
stable warty release.


Generally if you install something from Hoary, you're leaving yourself
exposed to broken, buggy and even insecure software.

Lecture over, on with the show.


You can certainly cherry-pick packages from Hoary.

1) *Add* hoary to your /etc/apt/sources.list, do not remove the existing
   warty entries:

	deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu warty main
	deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu warty-security main

	deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main

2) Create an /etc/apt/preferences file, pinning hoary to a lower
   priority than warty

	Package: *
	Pin: release a=hoary
	Pin-Priority: 250

3) Run aptitude/apt-get update

4) Install packages using "package/hoary" to cherry-pick the package.

	aptitude install evolution/hoary
	aptitude install mozilla-firefox/hoary


When hoary is released, you'll need to remember to remove the pin
from /etc/apt/preferences, remove warty from /etc/apt/sources.list and
make sure you're getting hoary-security.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott at canonical.com
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