Re: Backport Questions

[Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de>]

Am 2006-02-08 21:01:23, schrieb Marc Shapiro:
> Having seen a number of questions lately responded to by directing the 
> OP to backports, I decided to look into it, myself.  I added backports 
> to my sources.list, did an update and dist-upgrade.  I said 'no' to the 

Do you have read the Infos on <http://www.backports.org/>?

You should use it with care and use pinig like

        +---[ '/etc/apt/preferences' ]----+
        |                                 |
        | Package: *                      |
        | Pin: origin www.backports.org   |
        | Pin-Priority: 400               |
        |                                 |
        | Package: *                      |
        | Pin: origin ftp.debian.org      |
        | Pin-Priority: 900               |
        |                                 |
        | Package: *                      |
        | Pin: origin security.debian.org |
        | Pin-Priority: 1000              |
        |                                 |
        +---------------------------------+


Greetings
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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