Re: Backports pinning

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
>
> with different settings backports always got a lower priority than
> jessie/testing.
>
> Is it possible to give backports a higher priority than jessie/testing?
>
> Do I need to add wheezy/updates and wheezy-updates to the preferences
> too, or do they belong to wheezy?

The default priority of wheezy-backports is "1".

Check all the priorities with "apt-cache policy".

wheezy/updates and wheezy-updates aren't included in wheezy so they'll
have a priority of 500 if you don't change it with apt preferences.