Re: backports updates

[Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Monday 23 May 2011 00:45:34 Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 03:35:50PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
> > On Monday 16 May 2011 21:18:01 Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > > On Lu, 16 mai 11, 20:43:37, Lisi wrote:
> > > > Vanilla, and untouched by human hand.  Exactly as aptitude/debian set
> > > > it up! I have never dared touch my preferences file.....
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > >  200 http://backports.debian.org lenny-backports/non-free Packages
> > > >      release o=Debian Backports,a=lenny-backports,l=Debian
> > > > Backports,c=non-free
> > > >      origin backports.debian.org
> > > >  200 http://backports.debian.org lenny-backports/contrib Packages
> > > >      release o=Debian Backports,a=lenny-backports,l=Debian
> > > > Backports,c=contrib origin backports.debian.org
> > > >  200 http://backports.debian.org lenny-backports/main Packages
> > > >      release o=Debian Backports,a=lenny-backports,l=Debian
> > > > Backports,c=main origin backports.debian.org
> > >
> > > backports.d.o has priority 200, while on a squeeze machine it gets only
> > > 100. You should inspect /etc/apt/preferences and the contents of
> > > /etc/apt/preferences.d/ (if any of these exist).
> >
> > /etc/apt/preferences exists and  /etc/apt/preferences.d/ does not.  But I
> > am not clear as to the purpose of looking at them?
> >
> > For what it is worth, /ect/apt/preferences says:
> > <quote>
> > Package: *
> > Pin: release a=lenny-backports
> > Pin-Priority: 200
> > </quote>
> > It agrees with apt-cache policy.  Shouldn't it?
>
> I seem to remember reaading that the pin-priority for backports
> should be 100. That's what "apt-cache policy" shows on my system
> (squeeze).

I still don't see where we are going with this, nor why. :-/

Lenny and Squeeze backports obviously do things differently.  Hardly 
surprising!!

Lisi