On 05/23/2017 03:57 AM, Fungi4All wrote: > >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Re: Apt Question >> UTC Time: May 22, 2017 11:02 PM >> From: songb...@anthive.com >> >> Michael Milliman wrote: >> > I have, for various reasons, the repositories from stable (Jessie), >> > stretch, and sid in my sources.list file. I have Stretch installed and >> > have it running for some time. On occasion, there is a bug in Stretch >> > and I revert to the stable version of the package until the bug gets >> > worked out. I also, on occasion, use a more advanced version of the >> > package and get it from sid (with a careful look at the proposed changes >> > to the system when doing so). I have set synaptic to prefer the Stretch >> > distribution. However, when I reload, and tell synaptic to mark all >> > upgrades, it marks upgrades which it will pull from sid. Is there a way >> > to tell synaptic to ignore those upgrades, while allowing me to manually >> > install them should I wish to do so? I had thought that telling >> > synaptic to prefer the Stretch distribution would have handled that, but >> > I guess not. I figure I'm just missing something. >> >> you can always uncheck the apt lines for stretch, >> and sid in the Settings -> Repositories and then do >> an update to reload. then that will show you only >> the versions available in Jessie. then any versions >> you have upgraded beyond Jessie will show up as >> Installed (local or obsolete) in the Status selection. > > I don't know, I am not being sarcastic, is this really good practice? > If he is already running a sid linux kernel and some other core Actually, I'm running Stretch, with occasional packages reverted to jessie distribution, and other occasional packages advanced to sid distribution. > packages by switching to jessie he will be stuck with those packages > almost indefinitely, if the system doesn't eventually break due to > inconsistencies. Meanwhile any security and important updates in jessie > will not apply to all those testing and unstable till their version gets > superseded, and if ever. Let's say he has linux 4.9.. on and jessie > does an upgrade to 3.20, and packages in jessie are checked to all work > with 3.20. Who says that their update will work with an outdated 4.9? I assume (perhaps incorrectly) that packages that run on previous kernels (3.16 say) will continue to work under new kernels (4.9). I have not been bitten by this as of yet, though it is always a possibility. As far as packages advanced to Sid distribution, I make no assumptions, I try out the package, if it works, great, if not, I can always revert it to Stretch or Jessie. I always inspect the changes made to the system when installing from Sid to make sure that the changes are not likely to break the whole system. Again, I have not been bitten by this as of yet, though it is probable that I will be at some time :)
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