On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, evenso wrote: > 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. >
P.S. I took out /etc/apt/apt.conf to double check. squeeze-backports remains at 100 but squeeze drops down to 500. -- 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/20110515215100.GB3375@Deneb.office
