On Monday 20 May 2013 12:34:55 Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > Andrei is one of the most knowledgeable and helpful of the people on this > > list. He is also very experienced. > > > > You appear to be relatively new to > > Debian. > > Ahem, no, I am not new to debian.
Sorry. :-( Mea culpa. > But I am no coder (coding is something, > which is no fun for me). really, I am using debian now since sarge, on > desktops and on servers as well. And when things are not clear for me or > not satisfactory documentated, I ask the list. In my social and personal > area is no one, who I can ask and learn from. I am alone! :-( > > If you disagree with Andrei, it is a safe bet that it is Andrei > > who is right. You ought to look at where you are mistaken, not tell > > Andrei that he is wrong. > > No no, I do / did not disagree with you. If it looks like this way, it was > not intended by me. Again, please excuse, if it looked like that. Oh, disagree with me all you like - but be cautious about disagreeing with Andrei! > > You have clearly misunderstood what backports are and how backports > > operate. So I repeat: packages from backports, and ONLY packages from > > backports, are updated from backports. > > Yes, you are right. This thing I really misunderstood. I imagined, to add > backports to the sources.list would automatically replace packages from > stable with packages from backports (here clamav for example comes in my > mind, where every virus database update requires a new clamav binary). > > I see, I was wrong. I can see why you might have though that. The name is confusing. See: http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ Note especially: <quote> It is therefore recommended to only select single backported packages that fit your needs, and not use all available backports. </quote> 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/201305201249.21451.lisi.re...@gmail.com
