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, or be automatically > 'upgraded' to the backported version. To actually install the > backport, I also have to add the phrase -t wheezy-backports to the > install command. 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? I'd rather > not subscribe to another list and monitor it regularly just for the > very rare occation when I actually need a backport. Probably not quite what you're looking for, but with a backports entry in your sources.list you can search or limit within aptitude with '?version(bpo)'. With a limit view this will only show available packages which have a version in backports (specifically it will limit to any packages with "bpo" in the version string, which all backports do). Cheers, Tom -- : How would you disambiguate these situations? By shooting the person who did the latter. -- Larry Wall in <199710290235.SAA02444@wall.org>
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