Re: How safely to stop using backports repo?

2009-05-30 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 01:20:25AM +0700, sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote: Good day, MARGUERIE. Thank You for Your reply: Otherwise, you can `apt-get remove` them (plus --purge if you want to reset your configuration files) and re-install them : that way you'll use the main-repo version and you

Re: How safely to stop using backports repo?

2009-05-29 Thread sthu . deus
Good day, Konstantin. Thank You for Your reply: It will print the list of installed packages which have ~bpo in their names -- a common substring usually found in packages from backports.org. You say usually... Then, I can miss a package and that one will remain a breach in my system... No other

Re: How safely to stop using backports repo?

2009-05-29 Thread Manfred Schmitt
sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a automatic way that can give me a list of the packages came from backports repo? If backports is still in the sources.list: aptitude -F %p search ~S~i~Alenny-backports or aptitude -F %p search ~S~i~OBackports.org or... Ooops, after comparing both

Re: How safely to stop using backports repo?

2009-05-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 4a201c37.20018e0a.51f2.6...@mx.google.com, sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote: It will print the list of installed packages which have ~bpo in their names -- a common substring usually found in packages from backports.org. You say usually... Well, I think it is backports policy to always have ~bpo in

Re: How safely to stop using backports repo?

2009-05-29 Thread Guntram Trebs
Hello, i use aptitude, i would do it this way: - call aptitude and look up, if you have a section named Obsolete and Locally Created Packages. Normaly this section should not be visible as its empty - remove (better comment out) the backports-line in /etc/apt/sources.list - now do an update

Re: How safely to stop using backports repo?

2009-05-29 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Guntram Trebs wrote: Hello, i use aptitude, i would do it this way: - call aptitude and look up, if you have a section named Obsolete and Locally Created Packages. Normaly this section should not be visible as its empty - remove (better comment out) the backports-line in

Re: How safely to stop using backports repo?

2009-05-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 4a202553.4030...@trebs.net, Guntram Trebs wrote: - call aptitude and look up, if you have a section named Obsolete and Locally Created Packages. Normaly this section should not be visible as its empty - remove (better comment out) the backports-line in /etc/apt/sources.list - now do an

Re: How safely to stop using backports repo?

2009-05-28 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a automatic way that can give me a list of the packages came from backports repo? Install grep-dctrl and do $ grep-status -F Version ~bpo -a -F Status installed -s Package It will print the list of installed packages which have ~bpo in their names -- a

Re: How safely to stop using backports repo?

2009-05-28 Thread JeffD
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:20 AM, sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote: Good day, MARGUERIE. Thank You for Your reply: Otherwise, you can `apt-get remove` them (plus --purge if you want to reset your configuration files) and re-install them : that way you'll use the main-repo version and you won't

Re: How safely to stop using backports repo?

2009-05-28 Thread Sebastien Delafond
On 2009-05-28, JeffD jeff.dicki...@gmail.com wrote: Not automatic, but here is a quick script that might help you along: #!/bin/sh for pkg in `dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}'|sort` ; do if apt-cache policy $pkg | grep www.backports.org /dev/null ; then echo $pkgappears to

Re: How safely to stop using backports repo?

2009-05-28 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 01:20:25AM +0700, sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote: Thank You for Your reply: Otherwise, you can `apt-get remove` them (plus --purge if you want to reset your configuration files) and re-install them : that way you'll use the main-repo version and you won't want have security

Re: How safely to stop using backports repo?

2009-05-27 Thread sthu . deus
Good day, MARGUERIE. Thank You for Your reply: Otherwise, you can `apt-get remove` them (plus --purge if you want to reset your configuration files) and re-install them : that way you'll use the main-repo version and you won't want have security problems anymore. That decision I feared... Is

Re: [deb-sec] Re: How safely to stop using backports repo?

2009-05-27 Thread Brett Hamilton
Hi Stu, When I was downgrading from mixed stable/testing to stable, I created daudit. It is a perl script that compares a computer's installed debian packages with any of the three debian releases. daudit downloads the packagelist from packages.debian.org and compares it with dpkg on the

How safely to stop using backports repo?

2009-05-26 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. I have packages installed from backports repo. Now I want to remove the repo from my source list and therefore use not any more packages from there. My question is on security stuff, as AFAIK I can get into a troublesome situation - in case of simply stopping using updates from the repo

Re: How safely to stop using backports repo?

2009-05-26 Thread MARGUERIE Jérémie
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 00:36 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: I have packages installed from backports repo. Now I want to remove the repo from my source list and therefore use not any more packages from there. My question is on security stuff, as AFAIK I can get into a troublesome situation - in case