Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-05 Thread Kushal Kumaran
Andrei POPESCU writes: > > On my stable install where new packages haven't been cleared in a while > (179 in total) I have only 2 new packages that do *not* come from > backports (icedove-l10n-hr and icedove-l10n-hy-am). > > Actually I'm quite surprised about these two even showing up, given tha

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 05 mai 14, 04:05:28, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Andrei POPESCU >> wrote: >>> If one is watching for new packages it also makes sense to clear the >>> list from time to time: >>> >>> aptitude --forget-new >> >>

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 05 mai 14, 04:05:28, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > > > > If one is watching for new packages it also makes sense to clear the > > list from time to time: > > > > aptitude --forget-new > > Thanks for the explanation. I stored "~N" in my memory but

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 04 mai 14, 04:01:25, Tom H wrote: >> >> 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". > > New means pack

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 05 mai 14, 00:32:55, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > If you are much lazier, just > bump apt preferences to make them automatically installed. See: > > $ man apt_preferences This is however not supported and not recommended. https://lists.debian.org/20140427123500.ga2...@formorer.de Kind regards,

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 11:28:22PM -0600, Paul E Condon 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 interac

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 03 mai 14, 23:28:22, Paul E Condon 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 b

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 04 mai 14, 04:01:25, Tom H wrote: > > 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". New means packages not previously existing in *any* repository, so in the co

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-04 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 1:28 AM, Paul E Condon 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,

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-04 Thread filip
On Sat, 3 May 2014 23:28:22 -0600 Paul E Condon wrote: 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

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-03 Thread Erick Ocrospoma
On 4 May 2014 01:22, Tom Furie wrote: > On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 11:28:22PM -0600, Paul E Condon 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'

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-03 Thread Tom Furie
On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 11:28:22PM -0600, Paul E Condon 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

Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-03 Thread Paul E Condon
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 act