08-21-2020, 11:03 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-21-2020, 11:11 PM by moonwalkers.)
(08-20-2020, 10:04 AM)pine76 Wrote: Oh ok, thank you for sharing. Debian wiki also states something similar: the sid would be better to use for work instead of testing. The wiki also warns that testing may have security problems due to slowness of the packages being available in testing repositories; that is the reason they recommend pinning. But from what I see pinning requires some trial and error to make those priority numbers (990 to 500) work, which I don't have the time to invest on for now.
I guess based on your encouragement and what I am reading. Completely switching to sid can be a good idea. I will also need to experiment with pbp-tools as I don't see any documentation on it.
I was considering to set up apt pinning but it would be a better idea to switch sid perhaps. One thing I don't like is the frequency of updates with sid, but I guess I can live with it for a while, provided I get a reasonable stability.
If you do not consider yourself a Linux power user - do be ready to learn, a lot, if you switch to full-on Sid. And I would recommend to make sure you have at least one machine that you can always fall back to if your Sid system does end up breaking and you don't know how to fix it.
As to priority numbers - 500 is what the packages from most archives are set to. IIRC 1 is the priority for packages from experimental. Negative priority means package(s) will not be considered at all, priority higher than 1000 means the package will be considered even higher priority than newer versions. If you want to stay on Testing but have some packages updates from Sid then perhaps the simplest approach is to set overall priority to Sid archives at 1 (like the default for Experimental) and then set select packages priority to 500. Alternative option - configure testing as default repo, IIRC that'll assign it priority 900 and will make Testing versions preferred to Sid versions.
(08-20-2020, 03:44 PM)bcnaz Wrote: It would sure be NICE if a forum member that is handy with the software Prep, could prepare a recent version of the
Debian operating system that we can install to the eMMC and "keep the sd card boot priority".
And Place that in the wiki with the other 'Ready to use' Operating systems. ?
I simply have installed Debian on my microSD the same way I did for eMMC, except the one on microSD I keep very basic (no GUI whatsoever) and Stable, while eMMC is where I go hog wild on Sid with Experimental bits.
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