From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Federico Beffa Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: guile-2.0.11 installation on system with 2.0.5 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:09:27 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410865801 21641 80.91.229.3 (16 Sep 2014 11:10:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 11:10:01 +0000 (UTC) To: david@altosw.be, guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 16 13:09:54 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XTqdt-0004dm-Ku for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:09:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37136 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTqdt-0002lu-4N for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 07:09:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60329) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTqdf-0002jr-Ql for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 07:09:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTqdb-0006Lr-1T for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 07:09:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-lb0-x229.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c04::229]:54675) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTqda-0006LG-Q5 for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 07:09:34 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-lb0-f169.google.com with SMTP id p9so6300510lbv.14 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 04:09:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=olyJ2D0jXJzePWidQf/kZ8UXU3ghLytQtwWSngI34n0=; b=FGBv+VJv6vtjA7oh3I4UKJJnEajEkMTE4jUA/y/CVOyBDaERt5/xFc9RRkQy0HH57Q vnrXablRD1i/733INzmZqoGodbMEI09HwLfws4XHX4qxiz/52C+Pezc5XPbp9pdoBwV9 fS8xnE5kBptRc+lJwmeg4bkHSygWrDdTdOwnDqNPWyATTIqqvb7vhlPbtJi7ZKujd5Tz CCXHgrSTa9GsBDilj1DAvEectWefE+xAg+0i/6a+Jkl8VEQ70ZIkIH/DkgIpIbQaK8j0 fF2RckX01F0k60pSEEAOF69gW2+9kj6yX29w1rSJpAAclcR3/f1eEm9u3aZp4v+LSgYo dtfg== X-Received: by 10.112.75.233 with SMTP id f9mr9969330lbw.102.1410865767650; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 04:09:27 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.114.26.101 with HTTP; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 04:09:27 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Sender-Auth: DiF8-Rt4bliziZNTMYmn1jeACrQ X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c04::229 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:11515 Archived-At: David Pirotte writes: > Hello, > >> As far as I inderstand the Debian package manager mantains a package >> database. This is the place where it looks for installed packages. So, >> if I have a newer version of guile which is not installed through the >> package manager, the package manager will not know about it. > > even if you are locked in a debian stable, you can, and you should in the case of > guile really, install packages from testing, unstable and even experimental [which > is not recommended unless you know what you are doing of course]. > > So: > > update your /etc/apt/sources.list, add a line with testing source > update you /etc/preferences > > Package: * > Pin: release a=stable > Pin-Priority: 800 > > Package: guile > Pin: release a=testing > Pin-Priority: 600 > > aptitude update > aptitude > search for the guile-2.0 package aptitude entry > press enter [Menu: Package -> information] > select and install the testing version [2.0.11+1-1 as of today] > > with that setting, aptitude|debian future updates will track and offer you to update > the installed guile-2.0 testing package, while keeping everything else on stable... > there are doc about that, duckduckgo for it... > You convinced me that I should be fine using guile from testing. I've added the following lines in sources.list: deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ testing main deb-src http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ testing main created /etc/apt/preferences.d/00-stable containing: Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 800 and created /etc/apt/preferences.d/20-guile containing: Package: guile Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 600 Now, before installing guile from testing, I wanted to check if I still get no updatable packages as a moment before doing the change: aptitude update aptitude full-upgrade This tells me that the package libxnvctrl0 can be update. If I remove the testing entry from sources.list, then I get no updates. So, something is coming in from testing. Am I doing something wrong? Regards, Fede