On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 03:02:32PM +0200, Felix H. Dahlke wrote: > On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 14:04 +0200, thveillon.debian wrote: > > > However, I'm wondering why aptitude search and aptitude install show and > > > install packages from backports when I'm not specifically using -t > > > lenny-backports. That's a bit creepy. > > > > You can use preferences for that purpose. > > I never felt like fiddling with pinning, which is why I never did. > That's why I was quite surprised that some packages where offered per > default. It turned out that the only packages affected by this behaviour > are those related to kernel 2.6.30, I assume the maintainers have a > reason for this.
Each kernel version has its own package. If you try to install a 2.6.30 kernel package in lenny, it *has* to come from backports because it's *only* available from backports. Brian
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