On Ma, 21 iul 20, 14:42:02, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, July 21, 2020 02:47:47 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 20 iul 20, 13:46:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > If synaptic is pulling in *-backports without you manually DOING > > > something to select the backport over the standard version, then > > > synaptic is broken. Broken-er. More broken-er. > > > > In synaptic's defence, it probably doesn't have a choice if -backports > > (and -security?) is the only available repository. See Gene's original > > sources.list. > > I can look for the reference, but somewhere I read (recently, but as with all > google searches, it could have been from the previous century) something to > the effect that, well, I forget which way it worked, but somehow that maybe non > backport applications would get a pin value like 100 so that backport > applications would only be installed if somehow they had a higher pin value > (or something like that). APT's default priority is 500, exceptions in Debian are 'experimental' (1) and 'backports' (100). Because installed packages have priority 100 as well, for a properly configured (old)stable + backports system you must use '-t' to install packages from backports. Upgrades will then automatically pull from backports (because the versions are higher than the "regular" repository). Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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