> Does anybody have some magic foo for dealing with packages from backports on > debian/ubuntu systems? I'd like to pull certain newer packages from > backports, but keep the bulk of the system from stable.
You can use the interface /etc/apt/preferences or /etc/apt/preferenses.d/ (man apt_preferences) to make specific overrides to the priority of packages. You can see the priority for all your repos with apt-cache policy and for a specific package with apt-cache policy <package> Ex. cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/override Package: pacemaker Pin: release "a=squeeze-backports" Pin-Priority: 990 Im not sure if the "a=squeeze-backports" part actually does what you like but I think it is apt preferences you want to use. Best Regards, Andreas Larsson Axis Communications AB _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
