I have tried what seems like all permutations possible to make
& Apt.backportSuite "Stable "jessie""
work (square brackets, normal brackets, escape, combinations of all that...) but no success so far.
It seems there should go a string after backportSuite, which according to what I read should be double-quoted. However, the release also needs to be double-quoted.
What is the right way of doing this?
Well,
backportSuitetakes aDebianSuitedata type, andStableis a constructor for it. So, you don't quote the data constructor, but only quote the release name string passed to it:But,
backportSuiteis not a property, so you can't add it to a host with&anyway.If you're trying to set up a sources.list that can install backports, the way to do it is:
The standard sources.list configuration includes backports when the
DebianSuitepart of the host's OS is a stable release.There's also a property to install packages from backports: