use experimental .debs on Gutsy

[A Mennucc]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 08:32:31PM +0300, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
> I meant the repository where the latest zope related packages from here are.
> And as far as I know they are in experimental.

according to
http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-zope-developers@lists.alioth.debian.org
there are no packages in experimental

actually, most packages are in Debian/testing with the same version as is in
Debina/unstable, so you may try the trick I proposed with Debian/testing
(the only exception is plone3)

> The process I thought about is similar to the one you suggested.
> Let's hope it wont request the update of the libc ;)

before you do that, you should start 'script' so all you do is documented;
moreover, if you use aptitude instead of apt-get, you can always look
into /var/log/aptitude , that documents all actions (including previous
and new version of each upgrade).

 All this said, if your host misbehaves afterward, I must say that
unfortunately AFAIK there is no easy way to backup from that kind of
operation: no 'aptitude downgrade', no 'aptitude
fix-my-mess-bring-me-back-to-standard-install' (altough there was once
some script posted somewhere, at the time when people were playing
with the new pinning features).

a.

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