[Pkg-xen-devel] Newbie question

[Guido Trotter]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 07:07:15PM -0400, Ian MacDonald wrote:

Hi,

> You need 10.040 or later.  Backports.org should be there soon:
> 

Yeah, I taked about that with nobse, but he prefers to have it only after it
hits testing. I have a backport anyway in:

deb http://debian.quaqua.net/quaqua/ sarge-backports/

And btw a xen for sarge in 

deb http://debian.quaqua.net/quaqua/ pkg-xen/

> When backports catches up, simply tweak your /etc/apt/preferences with
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=sarge-backports
> Pin-Priority: 200
> 

BTW you don't need any other pinning, beside this one... After you have
installed your first version of a package from backports.org it will keep
upgrading it from there even if it's at priority 200... And you can choose to
install a package from it with

apt-get -t sarge-backports install <xxx> 
or
aptitude -t sarge-backports install <xxx>

or even look at the full upgradable packages list with

aptitude -t sarge-backports

Ciao,

Guido