On 4 May 2014 01:22, Tom Furie <t...@furie.org.uk> 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't >> make the backport appear in interactive aptitude, or be automatically >> 'upgraded' to the backported version. To actually install the >> backport, I also have to add the phrase -t wheezy-backports to the >> install command. And I have to know that there is a backport for the >> particular deb in which I have an interest. I suppose I could try >> reading the debian-backports-announce mailinglist, but I am so seldom >> bothered with having the latest version that I can't believe I will do >> that. 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 need a backport. > > Probably not quite what you're looking for, but with a backports entry > in your sources.list you can search or limit within aptitude with > '?version(bpo)'. With a limit view this will only show available > packages which have a version in backports (specifically it will limit > to any packages with "bpo" in the version string, which all backports > do). > > Cheers, > Tom > > -- > : How would you disambiguate these situations? > > By shooting the person who did the latter. > -- Larry Wall in <199710290235.saa02...@wall.org>
Well, after adding backports to your sources.list file, you can run apt-cache policy <package> in order to see *from* which repo are going to be downloaded, thus, all packages that have a backported version are shown. Maybe you'll be playing a little with apt-preferences config if there are several packages (or dependencies) that must belong to backports. -- ~ Happy install ! Erick. --- Cellphone : +51 950307809 IRC : zerick About : http://about.me/zerick Linux User ID : 549567 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cadond35pcsook3s+uryqypyrcmspzjqhwy0yoe+n5vpnsmp...@mail.gmail.com