Lenny-experimental archive

Today, a new archive was added to this repository, named lenny-experimental. It serves the same purpose as the experimental archive of Debian itself, namely to serve packages, that are experimental in one way or an other. In any case, these packages may not be considered stable and may or may not work as expected.

The first set of packages that can be found in lenny-experimental, is PHP 5.3. More information follows in a separate post.

To use the archive, put the following in your sources.list:

deb http://debian.dev-zero.nl/debian lenny-experimental main

To install a package, use:

# aptitude -t lenny-experimental install <package>

As with backports and custom, packages from experimental have a default priority of 1, so if you use any of them, please use appropriate pinning to receive updates. You can achieve this by putting the following in /etc/apt/preferences:

Package: *
Pin: release lenny-experimental
Pin-Priority: 120

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