On Du, 19 mai 13, 11:39:30, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Hello all, > > I wanted to install LO4 in wheezy. I wondered, why it is in wheezy-backports > but not in testing. Maybe the packages in wheezy-backports are too young for > testing? > > However, I managed it by using aptitude and made sure, all dependencies are > correct. > > But I guess, there is an easier way, to update my ONLY my installed packages > out of wheezy. In the wiki I read, you can use apt-get -t wheezy-backports > install $package, which worked well. Not sure what you mean here, could you please rephrase/elaborate? > And of course, i can edit the apt pinning system to give wheezy-backports a > higher ranking. But wouldn't this affect other packages, too? Yes it would and it isn't necessary, the defaults should work fine. > I suppose, there might be a way just to update certain packages from wheezy- > backports using the pinning system, but I fear, I can use this only for meta- > packages or directly named packages. Please correct me, if I am wrong. In the default configuration packages that you choose to install from backports (via -t) will be kept updated, but no other packages from backports will be installed. Does this answer your question? > And last question: If Libreoffice4 will be put into testing repo, will those > packages then be newer than those in wheezy-backports or is this a matter of > chance? Normally a package has to be in testing first and only then backported (to ensure some testing). The package in backports has a special version so that apt/dpkg always consider the package in testing to be newer (even if the software itself is at the same version). Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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