Partial upgrade with APT pinning (debian)?

MaulingMonkey · 01-21-2005, 02:31 AM

I'd like to upgrade certain components of Debian (namely, KDE) on my Debian box which is pinned with Stable > Testing > Unstable as so:

Code:

Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 650

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 600

Problem is, KDE was allready installed as stable, including it's dependancies. This means that this:

# apt-get -t testing install kde

Fails due to dependancies. And there are a whole bunch of dependancies. Assloads upon assloads of dependancies. Any tips for how to manage this?

Code:

Package: kde
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 750

seemed to have no effect...

I've tried many combinations of googlefu and apt commands, nothing seems to do quite what I want.

In the meantime, a quick apt-get update && apt-get upgrade is happily churning through another 131 packages.

leonscape · 01-21-2005, 06:11 AM

I think the KDE relies on a lot of lib upgrades that would break your mixed system, including some stuff as basic as libc, I don't think theres a way to make this work. You'd basically be upgrading to a full testing system.

Testing will be a good move anyway for a desktop system, as stable is really outdated for this. ( sid is even better for the desktop

, but you maybe uncomfortable going this far. )