On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 10:35:05AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Are you running a production system? Yes, I guess you could call it production. It's my family & friends server. In all the time I have been running Debian Testing, I have never once suffered a serious or protracted disaster as you envision. Maybe I'm lucky! Little things, yes, like the systemd thing the other day. On very rare occasions, I have had to pin a package. > If so, you should be running buster, and considering moving to > the next stable release no sooner than a few weeks after the > transition to bullseye. You should accept security updates as > soon as is convenient for you, on an ongoing basis. Backports > are to solve specific issues. Hence using buster as an example of today (understand should substitute bullseye after that release): deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster main non-free contrib deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster main non-free contrib deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free Is it then possible to add the /testing line to be able to occasionally pull in specific packages from testing? I think I would need a preferences.d/something.pref file. deb http://mirrors.linode.com/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb-src http://mirrors.linode.com/debian/ testing main contrib non-free Clearly if the package I wanted to install from testing would suck in a lot of dependencies, then I likely would not do that, but I don't want it to suck things in from testing automatically otherwise, I am then running testing. Is this setup possible or am I really just going to have to be patient if something isn't in backports? Michael Grant
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