How to load Edgy version of a package onto Dapper?

[Derek Broughton]

NoOp wrote:

> On 02/19/2007 04:18 PM, Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote:
>> Larry Alkoff a écrit :
> 
>>> 
>>> I'd be very happy to just get the Edgy version of vim onto Dapper.
>>> 
>>> If I knew how to find the repository that had vim for Edgy, I'd just
>>> add that temporarily to my sources.list.
>>> 
>>> How can I easily find where the vim package is in the list of Edgy
>>> repositories?
>>> 
>>> Larry
>>> 
>> NEVER DO THAT ! For the sake of your computer. you're going to break
>> your system.
>> To have latest packages, use the backport repository of your
>> distribution (Dapper) . If it doesn't exist, ask for it and if you're
>> lucky they will backport it for you.
>> 
> Raises hand & seconds that advise. Been there, done that; screwed up an
> entire test drive/system in the process.

Been there, done that many a time.  It always asks if I _really_ want to do
it.  It doesn't take much common sense to realize that when an update wants
to update libc6, it might be a little extreme.  If you try to install vim,
and all it asks to add is a few lib* packages that you don't already have,
it's not something to be scared of.  Somewhere in between you should think
long and hard, but even if it does mess you up - it's reversible!
-- 
derek