Re: distinguish between "core" and "main"?
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Harald Dunkel <harri@afaics.de> wrote:
> Backports for Squeeze contains just about 400 package,
> AFIACS.
Yep, if you want more you should either build (and upload) them
yourself or talk to the maintainers of the ones you want and get them
to build and upload them.
Alternatively you might want to install from testing directly. Not
everything from testing is installable on stable, which is where
backports comes in.
If you install from testing directly you will need some apt pinning:
http://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferences
Set your /etc/apt/preferences to the below and cherry-pick packages
from testing (or squeeze-backports/unstable/experimental). You will
probably encounter dependency issues, conflicts and compatibility
bugs, but apt-get upgrade will where installed, upgrade packages
within testing. Switch to a backport to avoid those issues.
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 900
Package: *
Pin: release a=squeeze-backports
Pin-Priority: 850
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 800
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 700
Package: *
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 600
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bye,
pabs
http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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