Automatic upgrade of backports [LWN.net]

Automatic upgrade of backports

Posted Sep 9, 2010 17:55 UTC (Thu) by ametlwn (subscriber, #10544)
Parent article: Debian squeezes out Chromium

Currently, packages that come from backports do not get automatically updated when doing an apt-get upgrade (or its GUI equivalent).

This is fixed easily by adding

Package: *
Pin: release a=lenny-backports
Pin-Priority: 200

to /etc/apt/preferences. It is the recommended setting for using Debian backports, see the official instructions.

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Automatic upgrade of backports

Posted Sep 10, 2010 12:06 UTC (Fri) by wookey (subscriber, #5501) [Link]

Maybe we should just stick chromium and iceweasel into volatile and have done with it.