Re: [Monotone-devel] Ubuntu 6.06

[Julio M. Merino Vidal]

On Aug 29, 2007, at 12:48 PM, Ludovic Brenta wrote:

> dtempw <address@hidden> writes:
> > Hi Ludovic
> >
> > Thanks for getting back to me. As you can see in the attached
> > screenshot, Ubuntu reports 0.33 as the latest version, I'd like to
> > upgrade all my systems (MacOS, Windows and Linux) to 0.36, but Linux
> > is holding me back.
>
> No, Linux is not holding you back.  What is holding you back is that
> you are using a stable "long-term support" version of Ubuntu: this
> means no package upgrades unless absolutely necessary (i.e. critical
> bug fixes but not new features).  In fact, your Linux is also being
> held back unless you've compiled and installed the latest version
> (2.6.22.4) manually.
>
> If you absolutely must have the latest version, upgrade to Debian
> unstable by editing your /etc/apt/sources.list to point at the Debian
> repository instead of the Ubuntu ones.  Then, do "apt-get update;
> apt-get dist-upgrade".  monotone 0.36-1 is in unstable but has not
> migrated to testing yet, and is being blocked by test failures on some
> architectures (this is intentional).

OR simply build monotone 0.36 yourself and install it in /usr/local.   
No need to switch the whole system to unstable to get a more recent  
version of a single package, specially if it is a tool that nothing  
else relies on.

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Julio M. Merino Vidal <address@hidden>