L.V.Gandhi wrote: > On 2/24/06, Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto@familiasanchez.net> wrote: > > >>To begin with, backports.org is designed to allow the user/admin to >>stick with a proven and stable system, but upgrade small parts of it to >>newer releases that are built to run on the older libraries available in >>stable. For example, I run Sarge (since I am trying to finish my thesis >>sometime this year and I no longer have time to deal system breakages >>that occasionally happen in testing/unstable). However, I need the >>latest openoffice.org packages. If they were not available from >>backports, I would probably get them from upstream (as I have with Eclipse). >> >>So, if you need stability with some (i.e., few pieces of) newer >>packages, then backports are the way to go. If you need all the latest >>stuff, then testing/unstable is the way to go. > > After adding bacports to sources list and less priority in prefernces, > can one do upgrade? Or one shold comment out backports after > installing say openoffice and firefox to ensure stability? If you follow their recommendation and pin the backports sources to a very low priority, then you should be OK. As far as upgrading, it will not be officially supported to upgrade from Sarge+backports to Etch (once Etch goes stable). However, the people uploading to backports.org are the package maintainers themsleves, so I imagine that they are least considering the possibility that people will be upgrading with their backported packages installed. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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