[oclug] Debian updating (Was: Good Point)

[Tom Goulet]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:07:32AM -0500, Jon Earle wrote:
> But, unstable is where all the good stuff is!  :)  It seems the stable
> branch, while perhaps being more well tested, lags behind the current
> release of many applications.  How else would one get the latest and
> greatest without using the unstable branch?

My favourite method is to use stable binaries, and unstable source
code.

apt-get -b source foo

You have to work out dependencies by hand, but that's acceptable for a
system that is still based on stable.

Tomg