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Re: How safely to stop using backports repo?

by Guntram Trebs :: Rate this Message:

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Hello,

i use aptitude, i would do it this way:

 - call aptitude and look up, if you have a section named "Obsolete and
Locally Created Packages". Normaly this section should not be visible as
its empty
 -  remove (better comment out) the backports-line in /etc/apt/sources.list
 - now do an update in aptitude and look, what's new in the section
"Obsolete and Locally Created Packages". For every such package try to
downgrade to a version from your remaining apt-sources.

That way you should have a good control over the changes. If you have
nothing left in the obsolete-section, you are done. If you want to leave
there something, you should check if there is a reasonable reason to do
so, as you have to care for security holes, bugfixes, updates there by
yourself.

my 2c,
Guntram

sthu.deus@... schrieb:
> Good day, Konstantin.
>
> Thank You for Your re
> You say "usually"... Then, I can miss a package and that one will
> remain a breach in my system... No other tracking ideas?
>
>
>  


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