Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Du, 04 mai 14, 04:01:25, Tom H wrote: I've never used this search term but aptitude has a search for new packages. I assume that a package is somehow marked as new after apt-get update or aptitude update. New

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 05 mai 14, 04:05:28, Tom H wrote: On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: If one is watching for new packages it also makes sense to clear the list from time to time: aptitude --forget-new Thanks for the explanation. I stored ~N in my

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Lu, 05 mai 14, 04:05:28, Tom H wrote: On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: If one is watching for new packages it also makes sense to clear the list from time to

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-05 Thread Kushal Kumaran
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: On my stable install where new packages haven't been cleared in a while (179 in total) I have only 2 new packages that do *not* come from backports (icedove-l10n-hr and icedove-l10n-hy-am). Actually I'm quite surprised about these two even

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-04 Thread Tom Furie
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

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-04 Thread Erick Ocrospoma
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/,

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-04 Thread filip
On Sat, 3 May 2014 23:28:22 -0600 Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: 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

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-04 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 1:28 AM, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net 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

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 04 mai 14, 04:01:25, Tom H wrote: I've never used this search term but aptitude has a search for new packages. I assume that a package is somehow marked as new after apt-get update or aptitude update. New means packages not previously existing in *any* repository, so in the context

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 03 mai 14, 23:28:22, 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

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, 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

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 05 mai 14, 00:32:55, Osamu Aoki wrote: If you are much lazier, just bump apt preferences to make them automatically installed. See: $ man apt_preferences This is however not supported and not recommended. https://lists.debian.org/20140427123500.ga2...@formorer.de Kind regards,

Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-03 Thread Paul E Condon
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