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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> >
> > 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
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