On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 1:28 AM, Paul E Condon <pecon...@mesanetworks.net> wrote: > > I have added to my sources.list the following line: > > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main > > But according to http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/, that won't > make the backport appear in interactive aptitude, or be automatically > 'upgraded' to the backported version. To actually install the > backport, I also have to add the phrase -t wheezy-backports to the > install command. And I have to know that there is a backport for the > particular deb in which I have an interest. I suppose I could try > reading the debian-backports-announce mailinglist, but I am so seldom > bothered with having the latest version that I can't believe I will do > that. Is there also a simple list of backported debs that I can browse > on the web to know what is available, or a wiki pointer? I'd rather > not subscribe to another list and monitor it regularly just for the > very rare occation when I actually need a backport.
The wheezy-backports archive has an apt priority of 100 (because it's marked as "NotAutomatic: yes" and "ButAutomaticUpgrades: yes") so a package from wheezy-backports will be upgraded automatically, unless there's that package with a more recent version is installed or available from another archive. You can list all the wheezy-backports packages with "aptitude search ~Awheezy-backports". I've never used this search term but aptitude has a search for new packages. I assume that a package is somehow marked as new after "apt-get update" or "aptitude update". You can narrow the search to wheezy-backports with "aptitude search '?narrow(~Awheezy-backports,~N)'". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=Sy+9wqmULQoEv=9o0cXeQDg31=a2Xjp-VCjqPj++nmw=a...@mail.gmail.com
