[ILUG] Quick (I hope) Debian question

[Jeroen Massar]

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Gary Pigott wrote:
> I'm trying to get the Asigra Televaulting client app (online backup, very
> nifty, definitely *not* FOSS) running on Debian Etch (RHEL and SUSE are the
> only supported distros) and have most of the problems sorted (hunting down
> required but undocumented packages one by one), but I've run into one that
> has prompted a question. 
>  
> It was compiled against libxerces-c.so.25, but Etch ships with
> libxerces-c.so.27. I could just download the .DEB from somewhere and install
> it, but if you start going down that road, then APT quickly becomes useless.
> I remember seeing somewhere that there's a way to add a repository to the
> sources.lst that only gets used for named packages (I need libxerces from
> Sarge, but everything else from Etch), but there's nothing in the man page
> and Google is drawing a blank. Any ideas?

It's called "Apt Pinning", first google hit which explains it quite
well: http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html

Alternatively, just make a fake package in which you 'record' these
alternative files, updates won't happen then but at least you have them
listed where they are from.

Greets,
 Jeroen
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