Good day.
I have packages installed from backports repo. Now I want to remove the
repo from my source list and therefore use not any more packages from
there. My question is on security stuff, as AFAIK I can get into a
troublesome situation - in case of simply stopping using updates from
the repo
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 00:36 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:
> I have packages installed from backports repo. Now I want to remove the
> repo from my source list and therefore use not any more packages from
> there. My question is on security stuff, as AFAIK I can get into a
> troublesome situation - in ca
Good day, MARGUERIE.
Thank You for Your reply:
>Otherwise, you can `apt-get remove` them (plus --purge if you want to
>reset your configuration files) and re-install them : that way you'll
>use the main-repo version and you won't want have security problems
>anymore.
That decision I feared...
Is
sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a automatic way that can give me a list of the packages came
from backports repo?
Install grep-dctrl and do
$ grep-status -F Version ~bpo -a -F Status installed -s Package
It will print the list of installed packages which have "~bpo" in their
names -- a comm
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:20 AM, wrote:
> Good day, MARGUERIE.
>
> Thank You for Your reply:
> >Otherwise, you can `apt-get remove` them (plus --purge if you want to
> >reset your configuration files) and re-install them : that way you'll
> >use the main-repo version and you won't want have secu
On 2009-05-28, JeffD wrote:
> Not automatic, but here is a quick script that might help you along:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> for pkg in `dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}'|sort` ; do
>
> if apt-cache policy $pkg | grep "www.backports.org" > /dev/null ; then
> echo $pkg " appears to be from www.b
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 01:20:25AM +0700, sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote:
> Thank You for Your reply:
>> Otherwise, you can `apt-get remove` them (plus --purge if you want
>> to reset your configuration files) and re-install them : that way
>> you'll use the main-repo version and you won't want have se
Good day, Konstantin.
Thank You for Your reply:
>It will print the list of installed packages which have "~bpo" in their
>names -- a common substring usually found in packages from
>backports.org.
You say "usually"... Then, I can miss a package and that one will
remain a breach in my system... No
sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Is there a automatic way that can give me a list of the packages came
> from backports repo?
>
If backports is still in the sources.list:
aptitude -F %p search ~S~i~Alenny-backports or
aptitude -F %p search ~S~i~OBackports.org or...
Ooops, after comparing both res
In <4a201c37.20018e0a.51f2.6...@mx.google.com>, sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote:
>>It will print the list of installed packages which have "~bpo" in their
>>names -- a common substring usually found in packages from
>>backports.org.
>
>You say "usually"...
Well, I think it is backports policy to always
Hello,
i use aptitude, i would do it this way:
- call aptitude and look up, if you have a section named "Obsolete and
Locally Created Packages". Normaly this section should not be visible as
its empty
- remove (better comment out) the backports-line in /etc/apt/sources.list
- now do an updat
Guntram Trebs wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i use aptitude, i would do it this way:
>
> - call aptitude and look up, if you have a section named "Obsolete and
> Locally Created Packages". Normaly this section should not be visible as
> its empty
> - remove (better comment out) the backports-line in /etc/a
In <4a202553.4030...@trebs.net>, Guntram Trebs wrote:
> - call aptitude and look up, if you have a section named "Obsolete and
>Locally Created Packages". Normaly this section should not be visible as
>its empty
> - remove (better comment out) the backports-line in
> /etc/apt/sources.list - now do
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 01:20:25AM +0700, sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote:
> Good day, MARGUERIE.
>
> Thank You for Your reply:
> >Otherwise, you can `apt-get remove` them (plus --purge if you want to
> >reset your configuration files) and re-install them : that way you'll
> >use the main-repo version a
Hi Stu,
When I was downgrading from mixed stable/testing to stable, I created
daudit. It is a perl script that compares a computer's installed debian
packages with any of the three debian releases. daudit downloads the
packagelist from packages.debian.org and compares it with dpkg on the
loca
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