On Monday 16 October 2006 02:08, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Robert Baldwin wrote: > > i am using debian etch/testing and the mirror us.debian.org > > <http://us.debian.org>. when i try to install nvidia-glx and > > nvidia-kernel-source it fails b/c they don't exist here (on the > > mirror). however the nvidia-glx-legacy and nvidia-kernel-legacy-source > > packages are there. when i viewed this mirror with firefox, sarge and > > sid have the packages but not etch. i have no idea why this is?. go > > see for yourself- http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/. > > i think this is very important for the developers. thank you > > I can verify this. Those two packages show up in apt-cache and > synaptic. If I do a dist-upgrade (running Sid) it lists those packages > as going to be updated. The download fails. Browser over to the > packages, and there is no nvidia-glx or nvidia-kernel package that is > listed in synaptic. > > W: Failed to fetch > http://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/pool/non-free/n/nvidia-graphics-driver >s/nvidia-glx_1.0.8774-5_i386.deb 404 Not Found > > > W: Failed to fetch > http://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/pool/non-free/n/nvidia-graphics-driver >s/nvidia-kernel-source_1.0.8774-5_i386.deb 404 Not Found > > So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being > upgradeable? > Yes, they are "closed" but the drivers are apparently the same. The glx maybe not. I get much better results with those on Nvidia's site than those on Sid. I keep the Sid nvidia-kernel-source package around because when this is upgrades, so is there's.
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