On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in > Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's another statement that > this isn't required for Squeeze. Does Squeeze backports get updated > along with the other repos via "apt-get update"? >
My squeeze-backports priority drops to 100 without pinning, while squeeze is 990--apparently the /etc/apt/apt.conf Default-Release setting. I believe 990 is necessary to prioritize a package above an equal version of the target release or the installed version. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110515214730.GA3375@Deneb.office
