Re: Libreoffice4 in wheezy? Several questions
Hi Andrei,
> > 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?
>
No, not quite. I imagined something like "apt-get -t update wheezy-backports"
and then "apt-get upgrade libreoffice-* | grep installed" or some similar
command. Just to make sure, to update ONLY the libreoffice-packages (and libs)
out of wheezy-backports. I suppose, you know, what I mean....
>
> 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).
Yes, this is , what I thought, too. But I learned, that this is not the case.
In testing the libreoffice version is 3.5.4, whilst in wheezy-backports already
is 4.0! IMO this is strange, as testing IMO should be higher and newer
versions than in stable. But in real, libreoffice4 is in unstable(!), and from
unstable ported to backports. I do not quite understand the policy in this
behaviour, sorry. :)
Best regards
Hans
>
> Kind regards,
> Andrei
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