Re: How safely to stop using backports repo?

[Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>]

Guntram Trebs wrote:
> 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 doesn't seem to work on my system. It will only report packages
that exist in backports, but not in stable. If the package has the same
name, but only a different version in stable and backports, that
approach won't work.

Cheers,
Johannes