On 20120703_103802, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 05:34:19PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: > > On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:09:49 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > but how does one know of the existance of a backported package. > > > > As usual, you go to the online search and type the name of the package. > > If there's a backport counterpart it will listed there. > > > > You can also query from here: > > > > http://backports-master.debian.org/Packages/ > > Are you supposed to do this daily, or what? > > He means it being a push operation not a pull operation. No doubt he > already knows about querying for himself at > http://backports-master.debian.org/Packages/ >
Let me join in the discussion of what I intended by my badly worded request: 1. I need a way of learning the name of the package that might help with some problem, a place on the web where I can pick up search terms on a topic with which I am not familiar. At the beginning of my search, I simply don't know what to type in the search box. In the particular case of backports of packages that I am already using and are serving me well enough as is, but might have a backport that is actually much better, how do I discover that backport? But more likely situation is that I have tried and found wanting the package in the original release, but would revisit the issue if I knew their was a backport. Tracking backports of software that I am somehow able to live without is not something to which I can allot much time. But I might be missing out on some really neat stuff. 2. If I do decide to put squeeze-backports in my sources.list, will the backported packages be displayed in the interactive browser? 3. If they are displayed in interactive mode, will I be able to tell that they are backports? (so that I can exercise that extra caution that has been recommended in this thread) These are questions that are quite low priority because I am generally quite satisfied with the pace of development in Debian. If the answers indicate that using backports is not for me, I'll not complain. Thanks :-) -- Paul E Condon [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
