Re: No backports for Lenny?
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:21:15 +0000 (UTC)
debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> Good day.
>
> I looked at the backports mirrors list and found there not lenny -
> only URLs for sarge. Is there an URL for Lenny?
Yes. I recently obtained OpenOffice.org 3.01 from there. Find the
repository below.
deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib
non-free
Backports does not operate in the same fashion as other repositories.
See http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions
>
> Also, do the backports and testing exclude one another - I mean should
> I use them both or only one of them?
I'm not actually sure, but I would guess that if you've moved onto
squeeze, that it doesn't make a huge amount of sense to have lenny
backports. As time goes on I'm guessing the two won't be compatible.
Mark
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