Re: backports updates

[Freeman <hewho7@gmail.com>]

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, evenso wrote:
> 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.
> 

P.S.

I took out /etc/apt/apt.conf to double check. squeeze-backports remains at
100 but squeeze drops down to 500.

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Freeman

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