Package: fai-client Version: 5.2 Severity: wishlist The FAI guide says the following about pulling in packages from a non-default release:
~~~ If you like to install packages from another release than the default, you can append the release name to the package name like in openoffice.org/etch-backports. You can also specify a certain version like apt=0.3.1 ~~~ However, it is often necessary to get a package and at least some of its available dependencies from backports, and it is not practical to have to track and specify each one to allow the minimum required version to be pulled in. In such cases, there is a significant difference between aptitude -t jessie-backports install <package> and aptitude install <package>/jessie-backports Would it be possible to add an option similar to how there is aptitude-r, or a way to add options to the package installation command line that would allow users to specify them for a certain set of packages? Many thanks and regards Afif -- Afif Elghraoui Laboratory for Pathogenesis of Clinical Drug Resistance and Persistence San Diego State University Alvarado Medical Center 6367 Alvarado Court, Suite 206 San Diego, CA 92120 p. 858-222-0454 http://tuberculosis.sdsu.edu
