On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:47, Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 10:32:20AM +1100, Glenn McIntosh wrote:
If you have a package that you need to upgrade, then you have several options: 1) upgrade to the latest release of Debian (might involve some down time) 2) get the package from backports.org (assuming someone has taken the trouble to backport it) 3) recompile from source and resolve any dependency issues yourself 4) get the package from a newer release by adding in both repositories, and prioritizing the older one so that everything else doesn't get upgraded too 5) just grab the .deb file from a later release in packages.debian.org and install it (this assumes all the dependencies will 'just work')
yep. there are several variations on those themes, but they're the basic choices.
Another variation: grab a the snapshot version the bug was fixed in from here: http://snapshot.debian.org/package/amanda/ Having said that, I'd only install the snapshot to verify the bug was fixed, then hunt backports for a version, while planning how to upgrade from oldstable to stable. Marcus. -- Marcus Furlong