Re: Backports on Squeeze
Am 03.07.2012 um 23:02 schrieb Chris Bannister:
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Add backports to your sources, update, then spend some time comparing
your favourite packages, see answer to 2+3. Remember a package may be
backported at anytime, so you may need to check more than once.
apticron with mail-notification?
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I think if you are running a production system, then you should be
intimate enough with the software to know when a new feature is
wanting
etc, etc.
In my case I adminster a dozen of servers and there are some minor
problems, which maybe can be solved with backports.
Subscribing mailing lists of critical software isn't always enough.
So it would be nice and less time consuming to be automatically
informed about new relevant packages in backports.
Thanks to your comments I will try out a combination of backports in
the sources.list, pinning and apticron--on a test-server.
Otherwise, it is just wanting to "be up with the Joneses" :)
IMHO stable is good enough on the servers and on my PCs.
If I want the newest of $package, then I first try in a virtual machine.
Helmut Wollmersdorfer
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