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fsmithred

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Registered: 2016-11-25

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jessie-backports

Someone posted in #devuan a couple hours ago that they ran into trouble with jessie-backports. This is the same problem I had a while ago. If you have jessie-backports enabled in your sources, and you run an update and upgrade, your system will get spammed with backports versions of everything possible. I reported this issue, and someone recently posted a possible fix - https://git.devuan.org/devuan/devuan-pr … #note_8046

Until then, you can prevent this from happening by pinning backports to a lower priority. Put the following into /etc/apt/preferences.d/00backports

Package: *
Pin: release a=jessie-backports
Pin-Priority: 100

This is a lot easier to prevent than it is to fix it. I don't recall exactly what I did to downgrade all the packages I got grom backports, but it may have involved uninstalling a bunch of stuff (including xorg) and then reinstalling. You can see what you have installed from backports with

dpkg -l | grep bpo

Last edited by fsmithred (2016-12-05 12:22:48)

chillfan

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Registered: 2016-12-01

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Re: jessie-backports

I don't recall exactly what I did to downgrade all the packages I got grom backports, but it may have involved uninstalling a bunch of stuff (including xorg) and then reinstalling. You can see what you have installed from backports with

dpkg -l | grep bpo

I had the same problem with the system being spammed full of backports.

After checking for packages named bpo as above and disabling the backports repository I did the following:

apt-cache show pkgname|grep Vers

From here I just chose the latest version that did not include "bpo" and used apt-get to downgrade the packages individually.

apt-get install pkgname=pkgversion

Where pkgname is the package you want and pkgversion is the latest one returned by the previous command. Where possible I removed and reinstalled packages that wouldn't clobber the system and downgraded the rest. It's a little time consuming, but everything turned out OK.

Last edited by chillfan (2016-12-05 13:24:41)

dj_papeles

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Registered: 2016-12-06

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Re: jessie-backports

Thank you very much! Pin priority did the trick, it worked like in wheezy.

fsmithred

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Re: jessie-backports

more...

https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/2 … 61.en.html

Author: Adam Borowski
Date: 2017-01-28 05:08 -500
To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Backports priority

(snip)...

Temporarily bump the priority of stable above 1000, it will downgrade
everything to that release.

Last edited by fsmithred (2017-03-12 17:36:02)