On Friday 02 September 2011 13:18:00 Scott Ferguson wrote: > Enabling those repositories on a constant basis means you have no idea > what will come down if you go:- > # apt-get update; apt-get upgrade (or dist-upgrade)
I have backports permanently enabled, but packages are only downloaded if I explicitly ask for them (-t lenny-backports) and are only updated from the backports repository if I have explicitly installed from there. The marvellous Debian sets the pinning appropriately automatically: /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=lenny-backports Pin-Priority: 200 I update daily on my main machine, and full-upgrade if there are updates. And I have done this for some years, and on more than one computer, without a problem. Everything else gets updated from the Lenny repositories when I aptitude full-upgrade (the equivalent of apt-get dist-upgrade), other than things that came out of the multimedia, opera or google-chrome repositories. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201109022327.12598.lisi.re...@gmail.com
