Re: Why does apt-get upgrade want to remove half of my packages?
On Tue, 08 May 2018, John Smith wrote:
> James, I understand your advice, thank you - but this is super-tedious
> and near-to-unusable in practice:
> I just do not know which packages have a newer version in bpo and I
> can not allow to take the time to check for each and every package
> that is installed on my system if there might be a bpo replacement to
> manually install it then. I just want to have new packages for a
> stable distro. How would you handle that?
then please don't use backports, such a usage isn't supported.
>
> I tried to pin bpo with apt preferences like this:
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=stretch-backports
> Pin-Priority: 800
>
> It first works fine, but then it leads to the same problem I have right now.
>
> Also I really would like to learn something about debian package
> management, so please allow me to ask:
>
> * why should I install specific backports instead of all that are available?
They are not tested together and probably not compatible together (as seen
here)
> * why should I not upgrade or dist-upgrade with -t stretch-backports?
They are not tested together and probably not compatible together (as seen
here)
> * is it good / bad practice to pin backports packages like in the
> config example above? Why / why not?
They are not tested together and probably not compatible together (as seen
here)
>
> These questions, btw, would be great to have asnwered in the FAQ -
> indeed I was looking for answers to them there.
They are. As we said in the FAQ, only install the backport you need.
Alex
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