[SOLVED] how to setup ice weasel upgrades in squeeze

Knightron · 10-12-2011, 12:42 AM

Hello guys, i am currently running squeeze, but would like to have ice weasel upgrade to the latest version and to have it upgrade to each later version as they come out. How do i go about setting this up?

cynwulf · 10-12-2011, 02:58 AM

The mozilla.debian.net repo is what you need: http://mozilla.debian.net/

Knightron · 10-12-2011, 07:52 PM

hello caravel, just a question bout the sight you listed. if i select release, will i be stuck with the curtent relies at that time, or will it upgrade when use aptitude safe-upgrade

cynwulf · 10-13-2011, 03:27 AM

squeeze-release is always the latest stable, I think the same goes for the iceweasel in backports - it's essentially a mirror and is from the same official iceweasel maintainer anyway. If you add backports you will need to upgrade by doing "aptitude -t squeeze-backports install iceweasel", if you add the mozilla repo (squeeze-release) instead it should just keep iceweasel up to date in the course of your normal updates.

Knightron · 10-15-2011, 08:28 PM

Hey Caravel, thanks, i think that was exactly what i wanted.

brennino · 10-27-2011, 04:24 AM

Only for understand what happen, why the priority of the mozilla.debian.net repo is higher than the official stable repo and the backports repo?
Why the backport repo priority is lower than stable repo?
Which configuration file/other decide the priority of the repo?

I thought it depended by the package version number but packages in backport have higher version. Despite this I have to force the use with -t option.
With the mozilla repo I haven't to use the -t but automatically updates with normal updates ... Why?

I'm a little bit confused...

Brennino

cynwulf · 10-27-2011, 06:10 AM

If you add the mozilla repo it's assumed that you want the iceweasel packages there, hence the default priority is used.

If you add the squeeze-backports repo then it's assumed that you will not be installing every package and will not want your system to automatically upgrade to backports packages (backports is not intended as a full distribution and all packages are not designed to be installed together), so it uses a priority of 1 (as does experimental).

From memory, the default release priority is set in the release file - i.e. NotAutomatic: yes/no. Yes is 1 and no is 500 (default for stable, testing and unstable). If you want anything else (-1 to 1001), configured for either a release or individual packages, you have to override it through /etc/apt/preferences and set it up yourself.