Re: Advantages of Debian "backports" over "testing"?
One more question regarding Debian backports- is it a good practice to
prefer latest versions from backports(jessie-backports) by default
while using stable(jessie) distribution? I mean something like this:
# cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/00_jessie-backports
Explanation: Change pin-priority to
Explanation: 500 for all backported
Explanation: packages.
Package: *
Pin: release n=jessie-backports
Pin-Priority: 500
#
Configuration above would change the priority of "jessie-backports"
from 100 to 500 and thus versions from jessie-backports would be
installed because those are newer than the versions in stable(jessie).
Or is it a better practice to cherry-pick packages from "jessie-backports"?
thanks,
Martin
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 4:25 PM, maderios <maderios@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/07/2016 12:45 AM, Martin T wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> what are advantages of using Debian "backports"("jessie-backports" in
>> sources.list file) over "testing"("testing" in sources.list file)? As
>
>
> Hi
> You can't compare, they are completely different. Backport packages have
> stable/Jessie compatibility. Testing/Stretch and Sid are very close to each
> other. Very far from stable/jessie-backports/Jessie.
>
> --
> Maderios
>
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