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11/9/12 at 2:23pm
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this may be a stupid question but I can't assure my doubts.. are squeeze-backports backports from squeeze to oldstable, or from wheezy/sid to squeeze?

also is there a deb-src repo for backports and will the packages installed from backports be upgraded with the others when aptitude upgrade is run?

basically I'm finding some sites are not working properly in iceweasel/firefox 3.5 and chromium 6, so i'm hoping to grab iceweasel/firefox 9+ from backports and maybe updated versions of libreoffice and virtualbox

no I do not what to switch to wheezy

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11/9/12 at 3:10pm
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iceweasel 10 is working on my system now so I'm 90% sure its a backport to squeeze rather then oldstable, but farther info from anyone who knows would be great
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11/12/12 at 8:06pm
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iceweasel 10 is working on my system now so I'm 90% sure its a backport to squeeze rather then oldstable, but farther info from anyone who knows would be great

Backports are from future revisions to prior builds. This can mean anything from a security patch brought in for Linux 3.6.x to a Linux 2.64 Kernel, to the whole of FireFox 10 to a system whose current latest build is FF3.5. There is also a practice for "frontporting" or Legacy support, but its generally less feasible or acceptable to do so. Luckily I run ArchLinux so "backports" are as simple as development builds from AUR (svn, git, mercurial etc)
I generally run a legacy environment in a VM instead of using legacy software in a modern environment, but there are exceptions, generally multiple versions of GCC and FFMPEG - I have a couple pieces of software I helped develop that only compile under certain conditions atm, and I can't be asked to rewrite the entire engine just to fix FFMpeg source compatibility (they use the older FFMPEG headers, and the current ones are completely incompatible, it would require a full re-write to support.)
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11/12/12 at 8:25pm
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iceweasel 10 is working on my system now so I'm 90% sure its a backport to squeeze rather then oldstable, but farther info from anyone who knows would be great

Backports are from future revisions to prior builds. This can mean anything from a security patch brought in for Linux 3.6.x to a Linux 2.64 Kernel, to the whole of FireFox 10 to a system whose current latest build is FF3.5. There is also a practice for "frontporting" or Legacy support, but its generally less feasible or acceptable to do so. Luckily I run ArchLinux so "backports" are as simple as development builds from AUR (svn, git, mercurial etc)
I generally run a legacy environment in a VM instead of using legacy software in a modern environment, but there are exceptions, generally multiple versions of GCC and FFMPEG - I have a couple pieces of software I helped develop that only compile under certain conditions atm, and I can't be asked to rewrite the entire engine just to fix FFMpeg source compatibility (they use the older FFMPEG headers, and the current ones are completely incompatible, it would require a full re-write to support.)

I did install kernal 3.2 but haven’t gotten around to virtualbox yet and the old drivers don't play nice with 3.2 so 2.6.32 ATM

never mind the whole of FF10. i'm using 18 now biggrin.gif
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