Joseph Skinner wrote: > I just had a look through the list of updated packages and have found > after looking at ftp.debian.org that the new packages are not there.
> The strange thing is that for the cases that I looked at the packages that > they replaced are not there either. > > Is there soemthing wrong with ftp.debian.org at the moment. I assume you're talking about the unstable tree. I saw a similar thing last week. I guessed that I was looking at it during _its_ mirror/update cycle. Later in the day (or the next day) it was OK again. I don't understand why the replaced files were missing too. The mirror that I run (v2.8) doesn't delete the old files until after the new ones transfer! However, the Packages file is still _way_ out of date, so I still can't install any of the recent updates. I sent mail about this on Friday but it's still in that state. Here's what I wrote: The Packages file on ftp.debian.org has the date 214917 Mar 22 17:10 Packages.gz but there have been many recent updates since then that aren't in the Packages file, such as binary-i386/devel/tcl76-dev_7.6p2-2.deb 323310 binary-i386/devel/tk42-dev_4.2p2-2.deb 524238 and lots more (modutils, etc). -- ...RickM...