Re: Pinning openoffice

[Rainer Dorsch <rdorsch@web.de>]

Am Freitag, 7. September 2007 10:29 schrieb Sebastian Harl:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 09:03:37AM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> > I am wondering, if I need to pin all dependencies from openoffice.org to
> > get
> >
> > -> openoffice.org installed from etch-backports
> > -> to get updates when available
>
> You need to pin the package you want to install from backports.org and all
> of its dependencies that cannot be satisfied from Etch. In some cases this
> might be a pretty high number of packages, thus you might want to use
>
>   aptitude/apt-get install -t etch-backports <package>
>
> This will install <package> and all of its dependencies which are available
> on backports.org from backports.org. If you just want a minimal set of
> dependencies installed from backports.org, you might want to install the
> package from stable first and then upgrade to the version in backports.org:
>
>   aptitude/apt-get install <package>
>   aptitude/apt-get install -t etch-backports <package>

When an updated package becomes available on backorts.org, will it be updated 
with an

aptitude update/upgrade?

Thanks,
Rainer

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