Re: backports updates
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in
> Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's another statement that
> this isn't required for Squeeze. Does Squeeze backports get updated
> along with the other repos via "apt-get update"?
>
My squeeze-backports priority drops to 100 without pinning, while squeeze is
990--apparently the /etc/apt/apt.conf Default-Release setting.
I believe 990 is necessary to prioritize a package above an equal version of
the target release or the installed version.
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Regards,
Freeman
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answer." --Somebody
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