how do you keep a single package up to date from repository not in your apt sources?

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to mount rbd volumes from the host, we get rbd-fuse from https://packages.debian.org/wheezy-backports/amd64/rbd-fuse/download

anyone know a good way to query and pull the latest? dont want to include the repository because that could over ride other things proxmox depends on. thats just one piece thats missing from wheezy.

 

[udo]

Re: how do you keep a single package up to date from repository not in your apt sourc

Hi,
due this package is in wheezy-backports you can easy install this source-list and install the package from wheezy-backports (-t wheezy-backports).

After that apt take care to use the actual version.

Udo

 

[pixel]

Re: how do you keep a single package up to date from repository not in your apt sourc

i dont want anything else from backports, just that one package. its a temporary concern since the next version of proxmox should have it.

 

[udo]

Re: how do you keep a single package up to date from repository not in your apt sourc

Hi,
and where is the problem? You got only the packages from backport, which you install from this source.

Udo

 

[pixel]

Re: how do you keep a single package up to date from repository not in your apt sourc

dont want newer versions of other packages. its not a big deal, since i dont think they'll hurt. but the system works well as it is, so i dont want to change it.

 

[udo]

Re: how do you keep a single package up to date from repository not in your apt sourc

dont want newer versions of other packages. its not a big deal, since i dont think they'll hurt. but the system works well as it is, so i dont want to change it.

Hi,
you know that's grossly negligent?!

But if you simply do an "apt-get -t wheezy-backports install package-name" after an "apt-get update", you update only this one package.

But I wonder, that you want to update this one package but other (important) packages not.

Udo

 

[pixel]

Re: how do you keep a single package up to date from repository not in your apt sourc

i was not clear. i want my updates to be from the stable repositories instead of backports. except that one package. otherwise, a backported newer version other packages can get pulled in. like i said, in this case, it does not hurt anything, so i will do this.

but, now im curious if theres way to only take one package from a repository, and ignore the rest.

 

[udo]

Re: how do you keep a single package up to date from repository not in your apt sourc

Hi,
this is this, what I say the whole thread. ONLY the packages, which you install from backports (plus dependencies) came from backports!

See here - only kernel and samba from backports:

root@fileserver:~# dpkg -l | grep -v ~bpo | wc -l
515
root@fileserver:~# dpkg -l | grep  ~bpo | wc -l
21
root@fileserver:~# dpkg -l | grep ~bpo
ii  initramfs-tools                           0.115~bpo70+1                 all          generic modular initramfs generator
ii  irqbalance                                1.0.6-2~bpo70+1               amd64        Daemon to balance interrupts for SMP systems
ii  libldb1:amd64                             1:1.1.17-1~bpo70+1            amd64        LDAP-like embedded database - shared library
ii  libntdb1:amd64                            1.0-2~bpo70+1                 amd64        New Trivial Database - shared library
ii  libtdb1:amd64                             1.3.0-1.1~bpo70+1             amd64        Trivial Database - shared library
ii  libwbclient0:amd64                        2:4.1.17+dfsg-1~bpo70+1       amd64        Samba winbind client library
ii  linux-image-3.14-0.bpo.2-amd64            3.14.13-2~bpo70+1             amd64        Linux 3.14 for 64-bit PCs
ii  linux-image-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64          3.16.7-ckt4-3~bpo70+1         amd64        Linux 3.16 for 64-bit PCs
ii  linux-image-amd64                         3.16+63~bpo70+1               amd64        Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package)
ii  python-ldb                                1:1.1.17-1~bpo70+1            amd64        Python bindings for LDB
ii  python-ntdb                               1.0-2~bpo70+1                 amd64        Python bindings for NTDB
ii  python-samba                              2:4.1.17+dfsg-1~bpo70+1       amd64        Python bindings for Samba
ii  python-talloc                             2.1.1-1~bpo70+1               amd64        hierarchical pool based memory allocator - Python bindings
ii  python-tdb                                1.3.0-1.1~bpo70+1             amd64        Python bindings for TDB
ii  samba                                     2:4.1.17+dfsg-1~bpo70+1       amd64        SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix
ii  samba-common                              2:4.1.17+dfsg-1~bpo70+1       all          common files used by both the Samba server and client
ii  samba-common-bin                          2:4.1.17+dfsg-1~bpo70+1       amd64        Samba common files used by both the server and the client
ii  samba-dsdb-modules                        2:4.1.17+dfsg-1~bpo70+1       amd64        Samba Directory Services Database
ii  samba-libs:amd64                          2:4.1.17+dfsg-1~bpo70+1       amd64        Samba core libraries
ii  samba-vfs-modules                         2:4.1.17+dfsg-1~bpo70+1       amd64        Samba Virtual FileSystem plugins
rc  winbind                                   2:4.1.11+dfsg-1~bpo70+1       amd64        service to resolve user and group information from Windows NT servers

Udo

 

[pixel]

Re: how do you keep a single package up to date from repository not in your apt sourc

oh, thanks. exactly

 

[thesubmitter]

Re: how do you keep a single package up to date from repository not in your apt sourc

There is a better way....
example:

File: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/zabbix
Contents:
deb http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/2.4/debian wheezy main
deb-src http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/2.4/debian wheezy main


File: /etc/apt/preferences.d/zabbix.pref
Contents:
Package: za*
Pin: origin "repo.zabbix.com"
Pin-Priority: 140

Package: *
Pin: origin "repo.zabbix.com"
Pin-Priority: -10

 

[udo]

Re: how do you keep a single package up to date from repository not in your apt sourc

There is a better way....

Hi,
perhaps for other repros yes, but for backports this is not nessesary. See here http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/

So I don't see the benefit of manual pinning.

Udo