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Installation of packages from backports, unstable and stable.



OS : Lenny 5.0.3

I have installed openoffice from backports and transmission-gtk from unstable.

I have read a couple of articles about installing packages from stable, unstable, etc.. and pinning of packages.

My sources.list entries are as follows :
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
#deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free
#deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main non-free contrib

After I have installed transmission-gtk, I commented out the line of unstable.
I did not created /etc/spt/preference file. I am still averse to pinning of packages.

Do I need to create a prefernce file ? and is it compulsory ?
Are there any more lines need to be added to sources.list file ?
If I did not create the preference file, and if I update the system [ apt-get update, apt-get upgrade ] will any issues crop up ?
If I pin my packages, what word should I use for backports. e.g. Pin: release a=testing.

Please guide me.

thank u,
vishnuvardhan.

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