On Ma, 10 nov 20, 15:02:42, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > On 10.11.2020 14:04, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Ma, 10 nov 20, 13:32:13, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > > > I want to stay on stable branch for as long as I can, so I found that > > > installation of nvidia-driver (with myriad of its additional relevant > > > packages) from buster-backports is a bit tricky. > > > Personally, I had to setup apt preferences [1], so that only nvidia driver > > > packages are installed from "buster-backports" and also their updated > > > versions once they become available for installation. > > This should work fine in the default stable + backports configuration. > > > > Care to provide more details? > > > At some point in the past I had to build backports to buster for > nvidia > drivers from unstable, because newer versions were not yet available in > buster-backports. > The whole build and install procedure was a bit messy, because I need both > AMD64 and i386 packages and updating nvidia drivers later from > buster-backports using Synaptic wasn't straight forward either. > So now, after I setup apt preferences, I can see if updated nvidia drivers > are available in buster-backports via Synaptic and I also can see and update > nvidia-cuda-toolkit in same manner.
In the default configuration backports is automatically assigned a priority of 100, which is the same as already installed packages. This enables you to install packages and their dependencies from backports with 'apt install -t buster-backports <package>' and such packages will also be automatically upgraded should a new version become available in backports. This should work with synaptic as well (though you must find out what is the equivalent of '-t buster-backports'). So it's still unclear for me why pinning backports was ever necessary. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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