On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 03:12:43PM -0500, Sven Heinicke wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:22:33AM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote: > > > When you do 'apt-get upgrade' you will only update stable->stable and > > > (maybe) testing->testing updates. If it doesn't do testing->testing, > > > then you have to do each one of them manually. > > > > > > This allows you to use stable as the default installation and then pull > > > in spamassassin (for example) from the testing branch to get something > > > more up to date without forcing everything into a -testing environment. > > > > I saw this recommended, and I tried it ... and never got anything. Even > > when testing had a higher priority, it never saw the updated packages. > > ..using apt-get by hand, as dselect confused me, er itself really :-( > > > > Are you using a specific package manager that gave you more control? > > > > I didn't see Joe Rhett entire post, so sorry if you already did this. > But try doing an 'apt-get update' before you do the apt-get upgrade. I did that. I thought I said that in my post, but maybe not. I understand the update thing, really ;-)
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