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#26 Re: Other Issues » Pinning a single package » 2019-02-05 00:02:30

Thank you very much! This seems to work. :-)

Just one observation, I was struggling with this before, until I figured it out... XD
According to apt policy, in the "Pin" line it should be stated either "a=unstable", or "n=ceres", otherwise it doesn't work as expected.

#27 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Software update notifications in XFCE » 2019-02-04 23:46:27

This doesn't seem to work for me, since I am using Beowulf, and gksu, which is a dependency, has been deprecated... :-/

#28 Desktop and Multimedia » Software update notifications in XFCE » 2019-02-04 15:44:59

franko
Replies: 68

Do anyone use any kind of software update notification in Devuan XFCE?  I can't seem to find anything working...

#29 Re: Installation » [Solved] Beowulf installation image » 2019-02-04 13:14:17

Thank you! :-)

Of course, mailing list! XD It was VERY late in the night, approaching morning, I had to sleep. :-D

golinux wrote:

Keep in mind that the mini.iso is not ready for prime time so YMMV.

I understand that. For now, I am fine with what I have ATM. Seems stable enough.

#30 Re: Installation » [Solved] Beowulf installation image » 2019-02-04 03:11:20

golinux wrote:

There were calls for testing those changes on the ML.

I have obviously missed it... I am new here, and using Devuan just a couple of days now, still figuring it out.
What is ML, btw?

#31 Other Issues » Pinning a single package » 2019-02-04 03:04:43

franko
Replies: 4

Hello!
I have recently installed Devuan ASCII, and then upgraded it to Beuwulf altogether. Then I noticed both ASCII and Beowulf come with the same version of Firefox-ESR, with doesn't support some media content I occasionally watch (yeah, the dirty world of DRM, unfortunately), so I figured to install the latest version of proper Firefox, but I wanted to do it with a Devuan package, which is only available from Ceres repos... So I went for pinning, but I a not exactly an expert in it, so I am asking for advice here.

What I did?
I opened /etc/apt/sources.list and added the following line to the end: deb http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged ceres main

Then I created /etc/apt/preferences and added this inside:

Package: *
Pin: release n=beowulf
Pin-Priority: 900

Package: *
Pin: release n=ceres
Pin-Priority: -10

I saved the file, and I did a sudo apt update, went well -- no upgrades from ceres were suggested. So I did sudo apt -t ceres install firefox firefox-l10n-hr (the last one is just for localization, of course). Went well, too -- it installed those two single packages from ceres, and forgot about it, as expected.

So, what do I want now?
I would like to be sure my Firefox package will keep being normally upgraded along with the usual upgrades, without me needing to remember to upgrade it individually, and still without automatically pulling anything else from ceres. Is it possible?
Is it possible to pin only the Firefox-related packages, while ignoring the entire rest of the ceres repos?

Thanks in advance for your replies. :-)

#32 Re: Installation » [Solved] Beowulf installation image » 2019-02-04 02:40:24

Wait! There IS an iso image for Beowulf? O_o
And I went through installing ASCII and then upgrading with apt... XD

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