On Sat, May 08, 2021 at 10:20:23AM +0800, Brad Campbell via Dng wrote:
> On 7/5/21 2:21 pm, Thomas Besser via Dng wrote:
> > Am 06.05.21 um 20:53 schrieb Ludovic Bellière:
> >> You mean this[1] package?
> >>
> >> [1]: https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/package-query.html?c=package&q=exim4=4.92-8+deb10u6
> >
> > It's a platform independent ('all') package.
> >
> > Look at https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/policy-query.html?c=package&q=exim4-base and you will see, that beowulf-security for e.g. amd64 stays on "4.92-8+deb10u5"
> >
> > After my mail yesterday I got reply on IRC, that there seems to be a problem in amprolla with that and a dev will look into this as soon as possible.
> >
>
> So I can see this in beowulf-proposed-updates now. Thanks for pushing this through.
>
> Showing that while I've been using Debian based distributions for 25 years I'm still a bit behind on anything other than install/upgrade/remove/purge. I couldn't get it to install automatically after adding proposed-updates to my sources.list, but I manually installed it as follows :
>
> apt-get -u upgrade exim4-base=4.92-8+deb10u6 exim4=4.92-8+deb10u6 exim4-daemon-heavy=4.92-8+deb10u6 exim4-config=4.92-8+deb10u6
>
> 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


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