Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable

From	Detlef Vollmann <dv@vollmann.ch>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable
Date	2024-05-27 22:00 +0200
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On 5/27/24 20:02, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>> # apt install -t=bookworm db-util db5.3-util libc-bin libc-dev-bin
>>>
>>> I can never remember exactly what `-t` really does, but I suspect you'll
>>> need things like
>>>
>>>      apt install libc-bin/bookworm
>>
>> To install a single backported (or other release) package,
>> apt-get install packagename/releasename
>>
>> and to install a backported package plus dependencies which
>> are also from that specific release, use
>> apt-get -t releasename packagename
> 
> But that's not the whole story of what `-t` does since the above does
> not explain why his attempt to use `-t` to downgrade some packages
> resulted in `apt` saying "<blabla> is already the newest version".

Sometimes '-t' works for me, and does what I expect, and sometimes
it doesn't.  So I generelly use now the explicit version:

apt install libc-bin=2.36-9+deb12u7

   Detlef

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moving some packages back to bookworm stable Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2024-05-27 16:10 +0200
  Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2024-05-27 16:30 +0200
    Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-27 16:40 +0200
    Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-05-27 17:20 +0200
  Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-27 16:30 +0200
  Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-05-27 17:00 +0200
  Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-05-27 17:10 +0200
    Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-05-27 19:10 +0200
      Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-05-27 20:10 +0200
        Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-05-27 20:50 +0200
        Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Detlef Vollmann <dv@vollmann.ch> - 2024-05-27 22:00 +0200
          Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-05-28 01:30 +0200
        Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-05-28 05:10 +0200
        Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-05-28 06:30 +0200
          Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-05-28 14:40 +0200
  Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2024-05-27 17:40 +0200
    Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2024-05-27 18:30 +0200
      Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-05-27 20:10 +0200
        Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2024-05-28 12:20 +0200
          Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-28 13:10 +0200
            Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2024-05-28 13:10 +0200
              Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-28 14:10 +0200
                Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2024-05-28 15:20 +0200
                Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-28 16:30 +0200
                Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2024-05-28 19:10 +0200
                Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-28 19:20 +0200
                Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-05-28 19:30 +0200
                Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2024-05-28 20:00 +0200
                Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-05-29 06:10 +0200
          Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable fxkl47BF@protonmail.com - 2024-05-28 15:00 +0200
      Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d63c@ewoof.net> - 2024-05-27 22:30 +0200

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