On 2017-03-13 09:55, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 09:44:16AM -0500, golinux@??? wrote:
>> 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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>> >>[ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
>> >
>> > 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
>
> I just pinned it manually. So it looks as if the issue has not been
> fixed yet.
> Or, at least, not for a system that was installed from alpha-2 and
> continually
> upgraded since.
>
> It is a configuration file, and they sometimes don't upgrade without
> manual
> intervention.
>
> -- hendrik
>>
>>

Also . . . don't use debian backports repos in your sources list. Use
the devuan backports:

deb http://us.mirror.devuan.org/merged/ jessie-backports main contrib
non-free

golinux