do I understand this correctly?

[Michael Havens]

help immensely. Thank you Mark.

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
wrote:

> Michael,
>
> If all you have is the stable branch in your sources.list, then you won't
> have access to any of the testing packages, even if you specify testing on
> the command line with apt-get. apt-get has to know where to find the
> package you want to download, which is why sources.list exists. If you want
> to be able to install both testing and stable packages, then you have to
> have both stable and testing branches listed in your sources.list.
>
> If you want to hold a package to a specific version or branch (stable,
> testing, experimental), then you can "pin" that package to that version,
> and all future updates will only use that version. Take a look at
> http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html. However, you still have to
> have the correct repositories listed in sources.list, and you have to run
> an apt-get upgrade to update the local cache so the OS knows where to find
> the packages you want.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> Mark
>
> On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 1:02 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> A specific version of a package can be selected for installation by
>> following the package name with an equals (=) and the version of the
>> package to select. This will cause that version to be located and selected
>> for install. Alternatively, a specific distribution can be selected by
>> following the package name with a slash (/) and the version of the
>> distribution or the Archive name (i.e. stable, testing, unstable).
>>
>> source: http://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get
>>
>>
>> So this is saying to me you don't need the PPA to install the latest
>> version but can instead do:
>> <package>=<version>
>>
>> If that is so we don't need to add PPAs to our systems. IN other words
>> PPAs are just a way to make it so that we are always running the latest
>> version of the package regardless of if it works whereas we choose what we
>> want to run with:
>> <package>=<version>
>> That is very Linuxy of them!
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
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