Re: pinning and groups of related packages

[Norbert Tretkowski <norbert@tretkowski.de>]

* Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Jason Lunz <lunz@falooley.org> wrote: [...]
> > I see. Perhaps 'apt-get -t' should be the first thing suggested on
> > the backports instructions page? It seems simpler and easier to
> > manage.
> > 
> > Does the pinning setup have any advantage? None come to mind.
> 
> Having the list of installed backports in a easily found file is a
> (small) bonus.

This command

COLUMNS=160 dpkg -l | grep \[0-9\]bpo\[0-9\]

should list all installed backports.

Norbert