Best way to install backports with FAI

[Adrian von Bidder]

On Thursday 23 March 2006 10:43, David Riddle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need X.org for some of my video hardware so I am using backports.org
> for installing X. I was not sure if I could install X using the normal
> FAI package system so I wrote the following short script/hook:
>
> $ROOTCMD apt-get clean
> $ROOTCMD apt-get -yt sarge-backports install x-window-system-core
>
> This hook works fine but I am wondering if I there is a system in
> place in FAI so that I can do this without a script. Is it possible to
> somehow pass arguments to apt-get with FAI?

I guess you could use a preferences file to pin certain packages to 
backports.  Myself, I just use a local repository and copy everything I 
want to take from backports to that repo.  These versions are always newer 
than the sarge versions, so the versions from the local repo will be picked 
up automatically.

cheers
-- vbi

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