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mrrhq	2012-05-12 , 17:41
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Originally Posted by reinob

@mrrhq,

Welcome to TMO!

Although I get the impression that you more-or-less know what you're doing, I would advise you to treat extras-devel with EXTREME care.

This is not Debian. Packages in extras-devel are in development, and anyone can upload anything that "upgrades" (read: fvks up) critical system packages in the worst imaginable ways.

Normally you enable extras-devel to install a single package, and then disable it.

NEVER do apt-get upgrade with extras-devel enabled.
NEVER do apt-get dist-upgrade under any circumstances (extras-devel or not).

I repeat: this is not Debian!

Enjoy your N900!

Thanks.

Okay, I had only intended to set the pin-priority of extras-devel such that the stable/testing packages come first.

So this is how it works then?
extras is like Debian Stable.
extras-testing is Like Debian Testing/Sid.
extras-devel is like Debian's Experimental.

And Nokia's repos are old-stable

You might have walked into the trap some guy created with his upload of libxau6 package. (snip)

Well, I thought that the libxau6 was working by now since someone said it had worked. I read the thread. But I suppose I'll change the priority of libxau6 to devel/testing and see if that works.

Also, I plan to get u-boot, Multiboot, and Recoverymenu installed after I do the fix to prevent the USB issue.

NEVER do apt-get dist-upgrade under any circumstances

This is what is confusing me. How do you completely upgrade the system, then?

Last edited by mrrhq; 2012-05-12 at 17:44.

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