Some clarifications regarding debian backports
I want to use debian-stable with backports and was reading up about it. I need to add following to the sources.list:
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See pinning & you may want to do a search on it!
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The link that you gave ( https://sites.google.com/a/demonkuty...debianpackages ) is very interesting. Is this a good way to have the best of all versions: stable, testing and unstable? Can one just setup in this manner (without using names like squeeze, wheezy etc) and one may have a distro which upgrades regularly (except during freeze periods)? Or should one use this only for an occassional application? What is the best method to have latest libreoffice on debian stable?
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From: http://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferences#Pinning (official view):
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What about my original questions regarding backports? |
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I suspect that the author of the wiki you linked used the word "pinning" like "mixing stable with testing and unstable" (there's also a disclaimer there): as far as I know, it perfectly makes sense to pin packages from the backports repository. Code:
deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian stable main Code:
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# apt-get -t stable-backports install libreoffice Regarding backports in general, installing them on Debian stable should be done on an occasional basis and for single packages you need: using them extensively might give you problems with dependencies (they are compiled for stable but they're still packages from testing). This is the official version: http://backports-master.debian.org/ Regarding generic vs. specific release names, using the generic names lets your system to be ready for upgrade when a new stable is released and your lists are updated, while with specific names you stick to your current release, until you edit the sources list. I'm not sure if an automatic upgrade to the next stable release is always the safest way: you have to be aware of many things and read the distribution-specific upgrade notes. This would be for a squeeze-to-wheezy upgrade: http://www.debian.org/releases/wheez...rading.en.html There's also something here on that matter: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ll-4175448555/ Kind regards, Philip |
The backports repo is not set to do automatic upgrades, so normal upgrade or dist-upgrade will not upgrade the whole system to backports. As others have hinted, you should not just upgrade everything to backports as it was never intended to be used as a complete distribution.
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Thanks of a detailed information. I realize that backports cannot be used as a complete distro (unlike stable, testing, unstable or experimental). It cannot even be used to extend debian-stable, since packages from backports will not be regularly upgraded with apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade commands.
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Thanks for your patience. I am new to Debian. |
Yes.
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Yes, Debian is well worth the effort to learn!
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