On Friday 06 April 2012 17:02:05 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 06:29:19PM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > 2. Add these lines to /etc/apt/preferences.d/backports (or > > /etc/apt/preferences) : > > > > Package: * > > Pin: release a=squeeze-backports > > Pin-Priority: 500 > > > > WARNING TO STEP TWO: This will make all packages from backports have > > same priority as packages from main repositories, so ALL packages will > > be installed from backports if they are newer than the ones at main > > repositories. If you are using Squeeze for stability, you might not > > want this. > > Ummm, well, obviously if you have backports in your sources list you are > no longer running stable.
It depends on the pinning. I have it in my sources.list, but I have to ask for it expressly for a particular package. I don't feel that one or two backported packages immediately means that the system is not stable/Stable. What about the multimedia repository? Opera? etc. Obviously anything that comes out of any repository other than main is not true-blue-pucka Stable. But in the real world one sometimes has to compromise, and I would still feel able to claim that my Stable box is just that, Stable. Lisi -- 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/201204061721.01611.lisi.re...@gmail.com
