The Ubuntu community has contributed 15664 ideas, 77393 comments, 1416168 votes
Idea
#1498: users should be able to selectively upgrade individual packages
|
| |
28
|
|
|
Written by CAsurfer the 29 Feb 08 at 15:22.
Category: System.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
|
|
|
Description
Users should be able to seletively upgrade individual packages to unstable (backports, Ubuntu n+1) versions.
I want the reliability that comes from running packages from the regular repositories, but every once in a while, there's a particular app that I want to upgrade to the latest version (Firefox, Compiz, etc.) I should be able to upgrade that app to the latest backports version without doing a global enable of backports and having all my packages try to upgrade.
Tags:
(none)
Attachments
No attachments.
Duplicates
Comments
|
laervian wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 15:59
| |
I do not think that's that easy. The problems you describe usually arise from core libraries being upgraded, and if you DO upgrade those, you risk making the whole system unstable if a bug was in the new version. Moreover, some packages require specific version numbers of core libraries (=
|
|
tyggna wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 23:21
| |
You can already do this if you're willing to compile it yourself and resolve your own dependencies.
|
Post your comment
|
|
|
