On 2011-03-24 04:03:27 Ken Heard wrote: >Steven Sciame wrote: >> This is confusing. There is 'backports.debian.org' and >> 'mozilla.debian.net'. Both use squeeze-backports in sources.list. >> >> apt-get install -t squeeze-backports iceweasel, on my box, points to >> backports.debian.net, I haven't added the mozilla.debian.net to my sources >> yet as this would be two squeeze-backports options. Do they work >> together? > >I am not sure about this, but I seem to remember fro somewhere that >which backports repository apt-get/aptitude will use to find a given >package depends on the order they are listed in sources.list. The ordering only matters when the same package name *and version* are available from multiple sources. In fact, it is more subtle than that, involving the priority system as well. But basically, ordering in the file is the sorting-of-last-resort. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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