Re: checkinstall lacking on stable

[Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> Is the following a correct procedure for etch amd64? (modified from a recipe I
> found for sarge):
> 
> (1) Add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file
> 
> deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ etch-backports main contrib non-free
> 
> (i.e., "etch" in place of "sarge")
> 
> (2) Add the following lines to your /etc/apt/apt-file.conf
> That will deactivate all packages from backports.org
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=etch-backports
> Pin-Priority: 200
> 
> (i.e."apt-file.conf" in place of "preferences" and "etch" in place of "sarge").
> 
> (3) #apt-get -t etch-backports install <packagename>
> 
> (i.e., "etch" in place of "sarge").

There's no real need to set a Pin-Priority; the above also assumes
that the package has already been backported to etch. I don't know if
that's the case.


Don Armstrong

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