On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 04:37:55PM +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > Alexander Wirt schreef: > > Paul van der Vlis schrieb am Friday, den 31. July 2009: > > > > Hello User, > > > >> When there is a newer version of an already installed backports-package, > >> do I get then the new version when I do "apt-get upgrade" ? > > Use the correct pinning as described on the "instructions" page or "apt-get > > -t lenny-backports install <package>" > > My question was about keeping my system up-to-date and not about > installing a package. "apt-get install <package>" will upgrade an already-installed package if apt considers it appropriate - and that's where pinning comes in. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@space.bg roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 If this sentence didn't exist, somebody would have invented it.
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