Apt-get - accept upgrades but no downgrades
Dear Community,
I recently installed a backport for my graphics-drivers (xserver-xorg-video-intel). When I try to update my system (Debian Jessie stable) using sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade, apt suggests to do some upgrades, which I would really like to have, but also to do a downgrade for the xserver-xorg-video-intel package, which I don't want to do. Is there a way to disable or permanently decline the downgrade of a certain package in apt? When I accept the downgrade my Windowmanager complains that it is running in software rendering mode and the cpu usage increases drastically. Thanks a lot! |
Your post makes no sense.
A backport ususally updates packages. |
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Let me try this: Problem with graphics -> I install a newer version from backports -> few days later I run my regular updates -> Apt suggests to downgrade to the version before backport. I hope I made it a bit more understandable what my problem is. EDIT: This is the interesting part of my "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" output: Code:
The following packages will be upgraded: |
Code:
apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-intel |
The output of apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-intel is as follows:
Code:
sudo apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-intel |
Because you have set the priority of the main repo to 1001.
Why? |
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I'm very sorry that i bothered you with my sloppyness. :o Thank you, next time i will be more thoughtful |
No apologies required - we've all done similar :)
Sometimes a fresh set of eyes is required on a problem you are scratching your head over. ... and it's a good bit of info for other searchers. |
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