Re: How safely to stop using backports repo?

[Guntram Trebs <gt@trebs.net>]

Hello,

i use aptitude, i would do it this way:

- call aptitude and look up, if you have a section named "Obsolete and 
Locally Created Packages". Normaly this section should not be visible as 
its empty
-  remove (better comment out) the backports-line in /etc/apt/sources.list
- now do an update in aptitude and look, what's new in the section 
"Obsolete and Locally Created Packages". For every such package try to 
downgrade to a version from your remaining apt-sources.

That way you should have a good control over the changes. If you have 
nothing left in the obsolete-section, you are done. If you want to leave 
there something, you should check if there is a reasonable reason to do 
so, as you have to care for security holes, bugfixes, updates there by 
yourself.

my 2c,
Guntram

sthu.deus@gmail.com schrieb:
> Good day, Konstantin.
>
> Thank You for Your re
> You say "usually"... Then, I can miss a package and that one will
> remain a breach in my system... No other tracking ideas?
>
>
>   


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