On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Harald Dunkel <ha...@afaics.de> wrote:
> Backports for Squeeze contains just about 400 package, > AFIACS. Yep, if you want more you should either build (and upload) them yourself or talk to the maintainers of the ones you want and get them to build and upload them. Alternatively you might want to install from testing directly. Not everything from testing is installable on stable, which is where backports comes in. If you install from testing directly you will need some apt pinning: http://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferences Set your /etc/apt/preferences to the below and cherry-pick packages from testing (or squeeze-backports/unstable/experimental). You will probably encounter dependency issues, conflicts and compatibility bugs, but apt-get upgrade will where installed, upgrade packages within testing. Switch to a backport to avoid those issues. Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release a=squeeze-backports Pin-Priority: 850 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 800 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 700 Package: * Pin: release a=experimental Pin-Priority: 600 -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTiniAgW+sKsjv-GaP=ksxhutlii...@mail.gmail.com