Re: [DNG] Diff between backports and proposed upgrades
Hi Ludovic, list, Just some minor nitpicks and additions. Ludovic Bellière writes: > Hello terry, > > The packages present in the backports channel comes from the next > unstable (bullseye/chimaera). Unstable is sid/ceres, always. The *next* stable release, bullseye/chimaera is currently known as testing. Packages in backports may (have) come from unstable or testing at some point in time but are rebuilt against stable. This prevents a scenario where a newer version from unstable or testing would require upgrading of a lot of dependent packages, e.g. libraries, and pretty much force you to upgrade a fairly large part of your system to unstable or testing. > Where as the proposed-updates (and **not** upgrades) are the packages > who are being prepared for the next stable point release. It is > debian's review process to make sure nothing breaks. Correct but there is no upgrades. I think you meant updates which is for non-security updates that should go in ASAP and cannot really wait for the next point release. For details and examples, see https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#special-case-the-stable-updates-suite This used to be called volatile. > Cheers, Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Softwarehttps://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Diff between backports and proposed upgrades
Hello terry, The packages present in the backports channel comes from the next unstable (bullseye/chimaera). Where as the proposed-updates (and **not** upgrades) are the packages who are being prepared for the next stable point release. It is debian's review process to make sure nothing breaks. Cheers, Ludovic On sam, 08 mai 2021, terryc wrote: > On Sat, 8 May 2021 00:13:11 -0300 > Gastón via Dng wrote: > > What is the difference between beowulf-backports and > beowulf-proposed-upgrades? > signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
[DNG] Diff between backports and proposed upgrades
On Sat, 8 May 2021 00:13:11 -0300 Gastón via Dng wrote: > On Sat, May 08, 2021 at 10:20:23AM +0800, Brad Campbell via Dng wrote: > > Is there a better way to be able to install the required packages > > without having to individually name each one and the version? > > yes, you can try to do it like this: > > apt-get install exim4 -t beowulf-proposed-updates What is the difference between beowulf-backports and beowulf-proposed-upgrades? Of my three recent installations of beowulf-3.1 I noticed after selecting online mirroring (deb.devuan.org), the first two included beowulf-backports and the third included beowulf-proposed-updates in .etc/apt/sources.list. As proposed updates produced a long list of packages problems, I swapped to backports. FIIW, if you want to pulled in all the latest(?) of your packages, a sudo apt-get -t beowulf-backports upgrade will pull them all in. Tip, check the list for any old stuff you no longer need and sudo apt-get purge old-package. > > > -- > gast0n > ___ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
