Actually ... no :-( ... I commented that line out because I did not know what it did and could see no mention of it in the man page (sources.list 5).
Why would security updates need a seperate sources line? Shouldn't they simply be considered part of the distribution? thanks for your time, donfede On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:46:02PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Federico Grau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello people, > > > > I am a relatively new debian user (a couple months), but long time > > linux user. I am curious why the new glibc updates are not showing > > up when I run apt-get. > > Wild guess: you *do* have > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main > > in your /etc/apt/sources.list, don't you? > > > I am running potato, have run apt-get update, and also dpkg -l libc6, > > but the most recent version it lists is "2.1.3-10". My sources.list > > file is pointing to a local mirror (tux.org)... the announcement and > > new packages were put out a couple days back, could it take that long > > for the mirrors to sync up? > > Well it could, but probably didn't. It may just be somewhere else (or > not mirrored to begin with). Wander around your mirrors equivalent of > dists/potato and see what's there. Security updates go into 'updates' > first and whether/when they will be merged into 'main' ... who knows? > > -- > Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
