On 20120702_144837, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 02:15:42 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > > > Is it safe to have backports enabled on a stable Squeeze 6.05 system? > > I'd say now is even safer than before because the backported packages are > integrated within the official repositories which should lead to less > packages/libraries collisions. > > Just use it with caution and consider a correct pinning if you are > planing of making an intensive use of them. > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón > >
This comment is addressed to this thread because it is a question that has puzzled me about squeeze-backports. I know that one must do a special thing, namely -t option in order to actually download and install a backported package, but how does one know of the existance of a backported package. For packages in the general main/squeeze grouping, I have browsed the interactive user interface of Aptitude. Do the backports show up there if I add the line to my sources.list? If no, where do I browse? If yes, how do I know that they are somehow special, and that I need to do more than typing a simple + to select them? The answer may be obvious and innately intuitive, but I have found from experience, intuitive is something that I was told long ago and not remembered until presented with an actual example. I don't think I have been told how to intuit the answers here. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- 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/20120702160949.ga20...@big.lan.gnu
