Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-23 Thread Marco Möller
On 1/23/25 00:14, didier gaumet wrote: Le 22/01/2025 à 23:41, Marco Möller a écrit : On 1/22/25 23:23, didier gaumet wrote: Debian provides realtime kernels in its repositories. For an AMD64 PC and Debian 12 Bookworm (without backports), the last LTS realtime kernel package is: linux-image-6.

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-22 Thread didier gaumet
Le 22/01/2025 à 23:41, Marco Möller a écrit : On 1/22/25 23:23, didier gaumet wrote: Debian provides realtime kernels in its repositories. For an AMD64 PC and Debian 12 Bookworm (without backports), the last LTS realtime kernel package is: linux-image-6.1.0-29-rt-amd64 Do I understand correc

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-22 Thread Marco Möller
On 1/22/25 23:12, Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 11:07:57PM +0100, Marco Möller wrote: You mean, linux-image-amd64 in bookworm-backports, which currently draws in  linux-image-6.12.9+bpo-amd64 (= 6.12.9-1~bpo12+1), can be expected to NOT draw in some 6.13 like 6.13~rc7+1~exp1 curr

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-22 Thread Marco Möller
On 1/22/25 23:23, didier gaumet wrote: Debian provides realtime kernels in its repositories. For an AMD64 PC and Debian 12 Bookworm (without backports), the last LTS realtime kernel package is: linux-image-6.1.0-29-rt-amd64 Do I understand correctly, that the rt-kernels like the one you ment

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-22 Thread didier gaumet
Le 22/01/2025 à 23:23, didier gaumet a écrit : [...) DAW usage and I don not think he was not using backports) [...) I did not take time to read myself before posting, sorry: "I do not think he was using backports" is more correct ;-)

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-22 Thread didier gaumet
Le 22/01/2025 à 21:48, Marco Möller a écrit : On 1/22/25 01:12, Greg Wooledge wrote: It's not yet clear to me whether you're trying to use a backported kernel because you *need* it, or because it has a higher number and you think higher numbers are better. I would like to optimize my laptop f

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-22 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 11:07:57PM +0100, Marco Möller wrote: You mean, linux-image-amd64 in bookworm-backports, which currently draws in linux-image-6.12.9+bpo-amd64 (= 6.12.9-1~bpo12+1), can be expected to NOT draw in some 6.13 like 6.13~rc7+1~exp1 currently already having appeared in the ex

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-22 Thread Marco Möller
On 1/22/25 22:32, Michael Stone wrote: I think the problem here is a misunderstanding of how backports work: they're not "the latest kernel", they're "the latest kernel from debian testing". You're not going to see a kernel in backports that's not going to be in trixie until after the trixie re

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-22 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 09:48:24PM +0100, Marco Möller wrote: Well, I thought that some easy receipt would pop up as an answer to my question on how to achieve such automatic upgrades. As this did not happen I conclude that the wished procedure is not so common and not readily worked out by now

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-22 Thread Marco Möller
On 1/22/25 01:12, Greg Wooledge wrote: It's not yet clear to me whether you're trying to use a backported kernel because you *need* it, or because it has a higher number and you think higher numbers are better. I would like to optimize my laptop for creative audio usage (tracking, running dig

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 01:00:49AM +0100, Marco Möller wrote: > On 1/22/25 00:10, George at Clug wrote: > > I apologise, but I do not understand what it is you want to achieve or what > > it is that you are asking. > > > > Can you please give more explanation? > > I want to install the currently

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-21 Thread Max Nikulin
On 22/01/2025 03:17, Marco Möller wrote: Could you please share with me, or point me to, a howto or receipt for applying all upgrades to future kernel 6.12.x versions to appear in Bookworm Backports when doing "apt update && apt upgrade", but to not leave the 6.12 (upstream LTS) branch and not

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 01:00:49 +0100, Marco Möller wrote: > On 1/22/25 00:10, George at Clug wrote: > > I apologise, but I do not understand what it is you want to achieve or what > > it is that you are asking. > > > > Can you please give more explanation? > > I want to install the currently h

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-21 Thread Marco Möller
On 1/22/25 00:10, George at Clug wrote: I apologise, but I do not understand what it is you want to achieve or what it is that you are asking. Can you please give more explanation? I want to install the currently highest version of kernel 6.12 from bookworm-backports to my Bookworm. Upon som

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-21 Thread George at Clug
Marco, I apologise, but I do not understand what it is you want to achieve or what it is that you are asking. Can you please give more explanation? You said: "not leave the 6.12 (upstream LTS) branch and not upgrade to some higher kernel version like 6.13 when they would also become available

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-21 Thread Marco Möller
On 1/21/25 21:39, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 09:17:52PM +0100, Marco Möller wrote: Hello community! Could you please share with me, or point me to, a howto or receipt for applying all upgrades to future kernel 6.12.x versions to appear in Bookworm Backports when doing "apt

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 09:17:52PM +0100, Marco Möller wrote: > Hello community! > Could you please share with me, or point me to, a howto or receipt for > applying all upgrades to future kernel 6.12.x versions to appear in Bookworm > Backports when doing "apt update && apt upgrade", but to not lea

Re: Backports and upgrade to buster

2019-05-24 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
And hi! :) On 5/23/19, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 23 May 2019 11:44:14 +0300 > Georgios wrote: > >> Hi there! >> I'm thinking installing debian on a new laptop. The problem is that the >> current version is stretch that comes with an old kernel that doesn't >> support my wifi card. >

Re: Backports and upgrade to buster

2019-05-23 Thread Georgios
thanks for your fast reply :D On 5/23/19 12:11 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Hi Georges, > > Quoting Georgios (2019-05-23 10:44:14) >> I'm thinking installing debian on a new laptop. The problem is that the >> current version is stretch that comes with an old kernel that doesn't >> support my

Re: Backports and upgrade to buster

2019-05-23 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Thu, 23 May 2019 11:44:14 +0300 Georgios wrote: > Hi there! > I'm thinking installing debian on a new laptop. The problem is that the > current version is stretch that comes with an old kernel that doesn't > support my wifi card. > I was thinking about using backports to install the lates

Re: Backports and upgrade to buster

2019-05-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi Georges, Quoting Georgios (2019-05-23 10:44:14) > I'm thinking installing debian on a new laptop. The problem is that the > current version is stretch that comes with an old kernel that doesn't > support my wifi card. > I was thinking about using backports to install the latest kernel. > > I h

Re: backports on kernel 4.15 and nvidia-driver 390 crashes x

2018-05-07 Thread Francisco M Neto
On Sun, 2018-05-06 at 16:34 -0400, Boyan Penkov wrote: > On Sun, 2018-05-06 at 11:20 -0400, Boyan Penkov wrote: > > > Updating sources to buster and pulling in kernel-image, kernel- > > > headers, then restarting to 4.16 to recovery mode, uninstalling > > > nvidia-driver and then reinstalling the n

Re: backports on kernel 4.15 and nvidia-driver 390 crashes x

2018-05-06 Thread Boyan Penkov
-- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com > On May 4, 2018, at 17:19, Francisco M Neto wrote: > > Hello, > > I had a similar problem when I upgraded from Stretch (4.9) to > Buster (4.15). The nvidia driver stopped working but after reinstalling > it started to work again, supposedly because it

Re: backports on kernel 4.15 and nvidia-driver 390 crashes x

2018-05-04 Thread Francisco M Neto
Hello, I had a similar problem when I upgraded from Stretch (4.9) to Buster (4.15). The nvidia driver stopped working but after reinstalling it started to work again, supposedly because it needed to rebuild the kernel module with headers from the new kernel. Maybe you're having a similar i

Re: Backports

2015-12-12 Thread Brian
On Sat 12 Dec 2015 at 17:36:32 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > What is the coorect way to request the inclusion of a backport of a package > in testing (python3-pygame) to stable? A wishlist bug against the package in question. Preferably with a convincing argument.

Re: Backports

2015-12-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > What is the coorect way to request the inclusion of a backport of a package > in testing (python3-pygame) to stable? I would ask such a question rather at debian-ment...@lists.debian.org Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Backports pinning

2013-12-21 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 22:24 +, Tom H wrote: >> >> apt-cache policy > > Thank you, that's a useful command :). You're welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: Backports pinning

2013-12-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 22:24 +, Tom H wrote: > apt-cache policy Thank you, that's a useful command :). -- Windows 8 Pro floppy disk 1 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-December/255074.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: Backports pinning

2013-12-20 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: >> >> with different settings backports always got a lower priority than >> jessie/testing. >> >> Is it possible to give backports a higher priority than jessie/testing? >> >> Do I need to add

Re: Backports pinning

2013-12-20 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > with different settings backports always got a lower priority than > jessie/testing. > > Is it possible to give backports a higher priority than jessie/testing? > > Do I need to add wheezy/updates and wheezy-updates to the preferences > too,

Re: backports for wheezy ?

2013-05-06 Thread Erwan David
Le 06/05/2013 21:11, Andreas Rönnquist a écrit : On Mon, 06 May 2013 20:34:31 +0200, Erwan David wrote: What should we put in sources.list for backports for wheezy ? deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main contrib non-free is not found. Se here: http://backports.debian.or

Re: backports for wheezy ?

2013-05-06 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On Mon, 06 May 2013 20:34:31 +0200, Erwan David wrote: >What should we put in sources.list for backports for wheezy ? >deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main contrib >non-free is not found. > > > Se here: http://backports.debian.org/news/Backports_integrated_into_the_main_arch

Re: backports for wheezy ?

2013-05-06 Thread Wayne Topa
On 05/06/2013 02:34 PM, Erwan David wrote: > What should we put in sources.list for backports for wheezy ? > deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main contrib non-free > is not found. > > > http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-debian-linux-upgrade-6-squeeze-to-7-wheezy/ -- To

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 02 iul 12, 23:15:33, Chris Bannister wrote: > > So you need to keep physically checking (maybe apt-cache policy) when a > new backport is available? aptitude search ~N will list any new packages (works for new kernels, since they have a different package name) aptitude search ~

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-04 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 08:38:33 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 02:04:52PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:38:02 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: >> >> > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 05:34:19PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> >> On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:09:49 -0600, Paul E C

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-04 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Am 03.07.2012 um 23:02 schrieb Chris Bannister: [...] Add backports to your sources, update, then spend some time comparing your favourite packages, see answer to 2+3. Remember a package may be backported at anytime, so you may need to check more than once. apticron with mail-notification?

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120704_090212, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 12:17:39PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > 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

Re: Backports on Squeeze OT question/issue

2012-07-03 Thread Robert Holtzm
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 12:17:39PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: ...snip.. > > 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

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 12:17:39PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > 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

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 02:04:52PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:38:02 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 05:34:19PM +, 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 ba

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-03 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On 07/01/2012 05:15 PM, Mark Panen wrote: Is it safe to have backports enabled on a stable Squeeze 6.05 system? I had Backports enabled on my Squeeze desktop system for quite some time. I'd say only use Backports if you need it. In my case, I had audio problems with the 2.6.32 kernel that we

Re: Backports on Squeeze OT question/issue

2012-07-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120703_103802, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 05:34:19PM +, 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

Re: Backports on Squeeze OT question/issue

2012-07-03 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:38:02 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 05:34:19PM +, 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 t

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-02 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Monday 02 July 2012 16:09:03 Robert Holtzm wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 12:48:36PM -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > On Monday 02 July 2012 03:46:30 Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > > Remember that you are enabling Backports with your own risk in case > > > you decide to enable them. > > > > I sec

Re: Backports on Squeeze OT question/issue

2012-07-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 05:34:19PM +, 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

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-02 Thread Robert Holtzm
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 12:48:36PM -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > On Monday 02 July 2012 03:46:30 Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > > > Remember that you are enabling Backports with your own risk in case > > you decide to enable them. > > I second that. Especially when trying to install newer kernels fr

Re: Backports on Squeeze OT question/issue

2012-07-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:09:49 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > 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

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-02 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Monday 02 July 2012 03:46:30 Mika Suomalainen wrote: > Hi, > > On 02.07.2012 03:15, Mark Panen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is it safe to have backports enabled on a stable Squeeze 6.05 > > system? > > I have them enabled on stable Squeeze system and I know some other > people too and we haven't ex

Re: Backports on Squeeze OT question/issue

2012-07-02 Thread Paul E Condon
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 whic

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-02 Thread Camaleón
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 collis

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 11:15:33PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 08:10:07AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Shouldn't be necessary, the backports versioning is specifically > > designed so that the version in testing is higher (the magic of ~) > > http://www.debian.org/

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 08:10:07AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 02 iul 12, 15:46:40, Chris Bannister wrote: > > I think there is an issue regarding security updates. Also I think you > > need appropriate pinning, maybe wrong though. > > Would you care to elaborate on this? The default pi

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-02 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02.07.2012 10:47, debian-user@lists.debian.org wrote: > __ Type your response ABOVE THIS > LINE to reply > > > Re: Backports on Squeeze > > *1QA4xxx2a* | JUL 02, 2012 | 07:47AM UTC Thank

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-02 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 02.07.2012 03:15, Mark Panen wrote: > Hi, > > Is it safe to have backports enabled on a stable Squeeze 6.05 > system? I have them enabled on stable Squeeze system and I know some other people too and we haven't experienced any problems. By d

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 02 iul 12, 15:46:40, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 02:15:42AM +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is it safe to have backports enabled on a stable Squeeze 6.05 system? > > I think there is an issue regarding security updates. Also I think you > need appropriate pin

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 02:15:42AM +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > Hi, > > Is it safe to have backports enabled on a stable Squeeze 6.05 system? I think there is an issue regarding security updates. Also I think you need appropriate pinning, maybe wrong though. Also remember to disable backports bef

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-01 Thread Sven Hartge
Mark Panen wrote: > Is it safe to have backports enabled on a stable Squeeze 6.05 system? Sure, why not. Just adding the backpors.debian.org lines to your sources.list will do nothing to your system. You have to manually install a package from the backports repository to add it to your system

Re: Backports and security updates; was Re(n): Dying iceweasel

2012-06-21 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:23:35 -0800, peasthope wrote: > * From: Camaleón * Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 > 14:51:49 + (UTC) >> What do you mean? Ensure that you're always running the latest >> Iceweasel (or Firefox) version available and that's all. > > Well couldn't an Iceweasel backport

Re: backports updates (2)

2011-05-23 Thread Lisi
On Monday 23 May 2011 15:02:40 Andrei Popescu wrote: > please feel free to ignore > any suggestions from my side regarding administering your computer, if > you don't find them useful. I just happen to enjoy throwing ideas > around, although sometimes I tend to exagerate ;) I knew someone once who

Re: backports updates

2011-05-23 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 05/23/2011 05:18 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: forgot about it. May I suggest installing etckeeper? In it's default configuration it will automatically keep a track of all changes in /etc, which you can review very easily if you wish with (as root): # cd /etc # git log -u If you make any changes

Re: backports updates (2)

2011-05-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 23 mai 11, 11:01:47, Lisi wrote: > > I have in fact gone on niggling at this. And the instructions page clearly > says to add those exact lines. I agree with you now. I must have just > copied and pasted them without registering them. > > I clearly do need to add etckeeper as you sugg

Re: backports updates

2011-05-23 Thread Lisi
On Monday 23 May 2011 10:51:21 Lisi wrote: > On Monday 23 May 2011 10:18:28 Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Lu, 23 mai 11, 09:37:25, Lisi wrote: [snip] > > # git commit -a -m "" > > > > The big benefit of committing yourself (vs. automatic commits) is you > > can easily tell from the commit message wh

Re: backports updates (2)

2011-05-23 Thread Lisi
On Monday 23 May 2011 10:18:28 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 23 mai 11, 09:37:25, Lisi wrote: > > I don't dare touch things like pinning and do not recall ever having > > edited a preferences file for apt. I'm far too scared of mucking up my > > system. I didn't want updated versions either OOo

Re: backports updates

2011-05-23 Thread Lisi
On Monday 23 May 2011 10:18:28 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 23 mai 11, 09:37:25, Lisi wrote: > > I don't dare touch things like pinning and do not recall ever having > > edited a preferences file for apt. I'm far too scared of mucking up my > > system. I didn't want updated versions either OOo

Re: backports updates

2011-05-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 23 mai 11, 09:37:25, Lisi wrote: > > I don't dare touch things like pinning and do not recall ever having edited a > preferences file for apt. I'm far too scared of mucking up my system. I > didn't want updated versions either OOo or Firefox that badly!! > > But, as I have said: where

Re: backports updates

2011-05-23 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 22 May 2011 23:10:28 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 22 mai 11, 15:35:50, Lisi wrote: > > For what it is worth, /ect/apt/preferences says: > > > > Package: * > > Pin: release a=lenny-backports > > Pin-Priority: 200 > > > > It agrees with apt-cache policy. Shouldn't it? > > It's just as

Re: backports updates

2011-05-23 Thread Lisi
On Monday 23 May 2011 00:45:34 Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 03:35:50PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > > On Monday 16 May 2011 21:18:01 Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Lu, 16 mai 11, 20:43:37, Lisi wrote: > > > > Vanilla, and untouched by human hand. Exactly as aptitude/debian set > > > >

Re: backports updates

2011-05-22 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 03:35:50PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 16 May 2011 21:18:01 Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Lu, 16 mai 11, 20:43:37, Lisi wrote: > > > Vanilla, and untouched by human hand. Exactly as aptitude/debian set it > > > up! I have never dared touch my preferences file. > > > >

Re: backports updates

2011-05-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 22 mai 11, 15:35:50, Lisi wrote: > > For what it is worth, /ect/apt/preferences says: > > Package: * > Pin: release a=lenny-backports > Pin-Priority: 200 > > It agrees with apt-cache policy. Shouldn't it? It's just as I expected. > As I said, I have set nothing manually. Aptitude set

Re: backports updates

2011-05-22 Thread Lisi
On Monday 16 May 2011 21:18:01 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 16 mai 11, 20:43:37, Lisi wrote: > > Vanilla, and untouched by human hand. Exactly as aptitude/debian set it > > up! I have never dared touch my preferences file. > > [...] > > > 200 http://backports.debian.org lenny-backports/non-

Re: backports updates and ButAutomaticUpgrades/NotAutomatic

2011-05-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 11:42:37PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 08:43:28PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On 2011-05-15 19:00:03 Robert Holtzman wrote: > > >On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, Freeman wrote: > > >> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -

Re: backports updates

2011-05-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 16 mai 11, 20:43:37, Lisi wrote: > > Vanilla, and untouched by human hand. Exactly as aptitude/debian set it up! > I have never dared touch my preferences file. [...] > 200 http://backports.debian.org lenny-backports/non-free Packages > release o=Debian Backports,a=lenny-back

Re: backports updates

2011-05-16 Thread Lisi
On Monday 16 May 2011 20:04:09 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 15 mai 11, 22:31:22, Lisi wrote: > > I am still getting backports updates in Lenny (via aptitude). At least, > > I was two (or was it three?) days ago. Is this very recent, this change? > > Please post the output of 'apt-cache policy'.

Re: backports updates

2011-05-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 15 mai 11, 22:31:22, Lisi wrote: > > I am still getting backports updates in Lenny (via aptitude). At least, I > was > two (or was it three?) days ago. Is this very recent, this change? Please post the output of 'apt-cache policy'. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian

Re: backports updates

2011-05-15 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 08:43:28PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On 2011-05-15 19:00:03 Robert Holtzman wrote: > >On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, Freeman wrote: > >> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > >> > According to the backports instructions si

Re: backports updates

2011-05-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-05-15 19:00:03 Robert Holtzman wrote: >On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, Freeman wrote: >> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: >> > According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in >> > Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's

Re: backports updates

2011-05-15 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, Freeman wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in > > Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's another statement that > > this isn't required for

Re: backports updates

2011-05-15 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:31:22PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 15 May 2011 22:05:29 Robert Holtzman wrote: > > According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in > > Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's another statement that > > this isn't required for Squeeze. Does

Re: backports updates

2011-05-15 Thread Freeman
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, evenso wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in > > Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's another statement that > > this isn't required for

Re: backports updates

2011-05-15 Thread Freeman
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in > Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's another statement that > this isn't required for Squeeze. Does Squeeze backports get updated > along with the oth

Re: backports updates

2011-05-15 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 15 May 2011 22:05:29 Robert Holtzman wrote: > According to the backports instructions site in order to get updates in > Lenny it's necessary to add pinning. There's another statement that > this isn't required for Squeeze. Does Squeeze backports get updated > along with the other repos vi

Re: Backports kernel

2010-06-02 Thread thib
Proskurin Kirill wrote: One question: It is safe to use backported kernel in production? Officially, it is not, but the backporters community is supportive enough. You should probably check this[1] out first, however. 1: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/driver-backport

Re: Backports kernel

2010-06-01 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue June 1 2010 12:20:43 pm Proskurin Kirill wrote: > Hello. > > One question: > It is safe to use backported kernel in production? > > I seems to need to use 2.6.30+ kernel to have a fix in OCFS2. I use the kernel from backports for ext4 support on one of my boxes, never had a problem with it

Re: backports issue with firefox and a mms stream

2010-03-31 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-03-31, Paul Eskello wrote: > Hi List, > > I'm a satisfied debian lenny user, but in some need of a more recent > firefox/iceweasel then 3.0.6, so I decided to use the 3.5.8 version > from the backports repo. > > Great, but my fav radiostream only offers a mms stream. My fresh 3.5.8 > doesn

Re: backports issue with firefox and a mms stream

2010-03-31 Thread Freeman
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 09:22:07AM +0200, Paul Eskello wrote: > Hi List, > > I'm a satisfied debian lenny user, but in some need of a more recent > firefox/iceweasel then 3.0.6, so I decided to use the 3.5.8 version > from the backports repo. > > Great, but my fav radiostream only offers a mms st

[solved] Re: backports' openoffice.org

2009-11-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
[redirecting to list] Michael, please keep the discussion on list so that others might benefit as well! Thanks! Michael Zoet wrote: >> Is there anyone out there who managed to run a version of openoffice.org >> 3 on lenny? What is the best approach? >> > > Openoffice 3.1.1 from the backports wor

Re: backports' openoffice.org

2009-11-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed November 25 2009, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Is there anyone out there who managed to run a version of openoffice.org > 3 on lenny? What is the best approach? I installed it from the openoffice site: http://download.openoffice.org/index.html It recognozed that I was running Debian Lenny.

Re: backports security

2009-11-21 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Paul: On Saturday 21 November 2009 00:36:12 Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20091120_212056, Jes?s M. Navarro wrote: [...] > > Unfortunately? I'd better say "by design". Unstable/Testing is not > > there to provide a product to final users but to provide a testbed for > > software integration.

Re: backports security

2009-11-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20091120_212056, Jes?s M. Navarro wrote: > Hi Gerfried: > > On Thursday 19 November 2009 13:55:25 Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Thanks to Sven for bringing the thread to my attention. > > > > * Sven Hoexter [2009-11-19 08:42:49 CET]: > > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 02:16:15PM +0700,

Re: backports security

2009-11-20 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi Gerfried: On Thursday 19 November 2009 13:55:25 Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > Hi! > > Thanks to Sven for bringing the thread to my attention. > > * Sven Hoexter [2009-11-19 08:42:49 CET]: > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 02:16:15PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > > > I have searched backport, wiki web s

Re: backports security

2009-11-19 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! Thanks to Sven for bringing the thread to my attention. * Sven Hoexter [2009-11-19 08:42:49 CET]: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 02:16:15PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > > I have searched backport, wiki web sites and still can not > > understand: does debian security team works with its pack

Re: backports security

2009-11-18 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 02:16:15PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > I have searched backport, wiki web sites and still can not understand: does > debian security team works with its packages or not? In other words, using > stable only and desiring the same security quality, I would not us

Re: Backports for Lenny ?

2009-05-28 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Thu, 28 May 2009 19:21:09 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > S. Fishpaste wrote: >> Is too soon from the release to expect some Backports for Lenny ? I'm not >> in a particular rush, just wondering > > There are some backports available, like Openoffice 3.0 and samb

Re: Backports for Lenny ?

2009-05-28 Thread Daryl Styrk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 07:21:09PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > S. Fishpaste wrote: > > Is too soon from the release to expect some Backports for Lenny ? I'm not > > in a particular rush, just wondering Bless the backports for wicd. http://ww

Re: Backports for Lenny ?

2009-05-28 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
S. Fishpaste wrote: > Is too soon from the release to expect some Backports for Lenny ? I'm not > in a particular rush, just wondering There are some backports available, like Openoffice 3.0 and samba 3.3.4. There will be others as well, just check it out. Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: backports keyring

2009-02-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 19:07:23 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Sunday 15 February 2009 18:46:42 Robert Holtzman wrote: > > Tried "apt-get install debian-backports-keyring" and got the message > > > > WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! > >debian-backports-keyrin

Re: backports keyring

2009-02-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 15 February 2009 18:46:42 Robert Holtzman wrote: > Tried "apt-get install debian-backports-keyring" and got the message > > WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! >debian-backports-keyring > Install these packages without verification [y/N]? > E: Some packages could

Re: Backports packages in red letters.

2008-04-16 Thread David
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 4:40 AM, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Luca Renaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > Several packages (if not all) in backports.org when we search them in > > http://packages.debian.org/ appear with > > the letters in red: backports(in red),is this a specific

Re: Backports packages in red letters.

2008-04-16 Thread s. keeling
Luca Renaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Several packages (if not all) in backports.org when we search them in > http://packages.debian.org/ appear with > the letters in red: backports(in red),is this a specific warning sign? Or > just to remember that these packages > do not have security update

Re: backports

2007-07-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 09:44:55 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: [...] > Strange. I can ping the Debian keyserver: > > $ ping keyring.debian.org > PING keyring.debian.org (192.25.206.59) 56(84) bytes of data. > 64 bytes from raff.debian.org (192.25.206.59): icmp_seq=1 ttl=40 time=158 ms > > but I cann

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