Chris Bannister: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 04:54:39PM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> >> Sometimes aptitude's TUI is really useful. Like yesterday, when I >> down-pinned debian-multimedia.org and wanted to replace all packages >> from there with their official Debian counterparts (if possible). > > Mmmm, interesting. I've just removed debian-multimedia.org from my > sources list completely.
That was an intermediate step I took. That way, I could just look at aptitude's list of "Obsolete and Locally Created Packages" in order to identify d-m.org packages. And during that process I got rid of several hundred MB of other obsolete packages as well. > I'm now running completely packages from the > main Debian repository. Admittedly that is just mplayer2 and ffmpeg. I reaklly like handbrake-cli, that's why I had to keep d-m.org in the end. BTW, if anyone is interested in an appropriate pinning section (took me a few tries): /etc/apt/preferences.d/00multimedia: Package: * Pin: release o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages Pin-Priority: 1 And BTW2: For stable, ffmpeg from backports is currently *newer* than ffmpeg from d-m.org: # apt-cache policy ffmpeg ffmpeg: Installed: 4:0.8-2~bpo60+1 Candidate: 4:0.8-2~bpo60+1 Version table: 5:0.7.11-0.1 0 1 http://ftp.uni-kl.de/debian-multimedia/ squeeze/main amd64 Packages *** 4:0.8-2~bpo60+1 0 100 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 4:0.7.2-1~bpo60+1 0 100 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports/main amd64 Packages 4:0.5.6-3 0 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main amd64 Packages 500 http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main amd64 Packages It's just the epoch that makes Marillat's version look more current. J. -- I am on the payroll of a company to whom I owe my undying gratitude. [Agree] [Disagree] <http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html>
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