Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

[Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz>]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 06:29:19PM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote:
> 2. Add these lines to /etc/apt/preferences.d/backports (or
> /etc/apt/preferences) :
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=squeeze-backports
> Pin-Priority: 500
> 
> WARNING TO STEP TWO: This will make all packages from backports have
> same priority as packages from main repositories, so ALL packages will
> be installed from backports if they are newer than the ones at main
> repositories. If you are using Squeeze for stability, you might not
> want this.

Ummm, well, obviously if you have backports in your sources list you are
no longer running stable.

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