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Author: golinux
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To: Dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] getting surf from backports
On 2017-03-13 09:06, Dave Turner wrote:
> On 13/03/17 13:35, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 08:25:25AM +0000, KatolaZ wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 07:10:00PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>>
>> I have found two browser-related devuan packages that have surf in
>> their names.
>>
>> surf
>> netsurf
>>
>> Is either of them relted to the surf you are documenting?
>>
>> Hi Hendrik,
>>
>> you should use the package "surf". The default version in jessie is
>> 0.6, but I would warmly suggest you to get the 0.7, e.g. from
>> jessie-backports.
>
> Just noticed
> surf --version
> doesn't work.
>
> But aptitude indeed does tell me I'm using 0.6.
>
> Looking at backports. Now have surf 0.7.
>
> With the backports lines in /etc/apt/sources.list, will everything
> automatically
> get upgraded to the backports version if I do
> aptitude update
> aptitude upgrade
> ? I don't see anything in /etc/apt to stop this. I'd like to be able
> to have some
> control over which packages I get from backports.
>
> Or am I better off from a security perspective to always get backports
> updates for
> everything?
>
> -- hendrik
>
>> HND
>>
>> KatolaZ
>>
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>
> Hendrik,
> When you use backports all packages in backports are de-activated.
> You have to explicitly install the package you want.
>
> sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports install "package"
>
> So don't be afraid to add
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian [4] jessie-backports main
> into your sources.list
>
> and have a look at
> https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ [5]
> to set your mind at rest.
>
> DaveT
>


Perhaps not the best advice . . . Has this issue been fixed yet? If
not you'll have to do the pinning manually.

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=479

golinux