Re: Question about wheezy-backports
Hi,
On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 11:28:22PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I have added to my sources.list the following line:
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main
>
> But according to http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/, that won't
> make the backport appear in interactive aptitude,
I do not see this?
It says: "All backports are deactivated by default."
So aptitude in full screen interactive mode does not show it as the default
choice in the package list mode but you can select it by going into 1
level from the package list mode. There you can select the backported
packages.
> or be automatically 'upgraded' to the backported version.
True.
> To actually install the
> backport, I also have to add the phrase -t wheezy-backports to the
> install command.
If you are using command line mode. True. The same goes to apt-get.
> And I have to know that there is a backport for the
> particular deb in which I have an interest. I suppose I could try
> reading the debian-backports-announce mailinglist, but I am so seldom
> bothered with having the latest version that I can't believe I will do
> that. Is there also a simple list of backported debs that I can browse
> on the web to know what is available, or a wiki pointer?
See Andrei's post for the right solution. If you are much lazier, just
bump apt preferences to make them automatically installed. See:
$ man apt_preferences
Regards,
Osamu
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