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Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?



On Mi, 28 mar 12, 18:29:19, 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.

I'm quite convinced it's safer to run testing instead. Backports is not 
(and never was) intended to be used like this. For example some packages 
in backports may not work well together (or at all) even if they do so 
in testing.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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