On 19 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
[snip]
I also tried a specific upgrade to the new version of mozilla (1.0.0)
which is listed in unstable but was told that my version (from testing)
was the latest, which it isn't.
Sounds like a buggy apt preferences file, assuming that that's what
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 10:24:54AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 19 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
I also tried a specific upgrade to the new version of mozilla (1.0.0)
which is listed in unstable but was told that my version (from testing)
was the latest, which it isn't.
Sounds
On 20 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 10:24:54AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 19 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
I also tried a specific upgrade to the new version of mozilla (1.0.0)
which is listed in unstable but was told that my version (from testing)
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 11:50:58AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 20 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
Run 'dselect update'.
Many thanks; that seems to have fixed it!
Isn't it supposed to be run automatically by apt-get?
No; 'dselect update' is a superset of 'apt-get update' (if dselect
On 20 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 11:50:58AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 20 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
Run 'dselect update'.
Many thanks; that seems to have fixed it!
Isn't it supposed to be run automatically by apt-get?
No; 'dselect update' is
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 02:21:30PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 20 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
No; 'dselect update' is a superset of 'apt-get update' (if dselect is
configured to use the apt method, which is the default these days), not
the other way round.
Arguably it shouldn't
On 20 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 02:21:30PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 20 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
No; 'dselect update' is a superset of 'apt-get update' (if dselect is
configured to use the apt method, which is the default these days), not
the
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 02:47:39PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
'apt-get update' has never updated dpkg's available file. Very likely
you just never noticed this before.
That's odd. I haven't used dselect since just after I installed Debian
here, now many months ago, but my
On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 11:48, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 02:47:39PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
'apt-get update' has never updated dpkg's available file. Very likely
you just never noticed this before.
That's odd. I haven't used dselect since just after I
Lo, on Thursday, June 20, Colin Watson did write:
If you care about dpkg's available file being up-to-date, you need to
run 'dselect update', which runs 'apt-get update' for you. You don't
need to run 'apt-get update' as well.
Pardon the somewhat elementary question, but what is dpkg's
* Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020620 15:59]:
Lo, on Thursday, June 20, Colin Watson did write:
If you care about dpkg's available file being up-to-date, you need to
run 'dselect update', which runs 'apt-get update' for you. You don't
need to run 'apt-get update' as well.
Pardon
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 05:15:24PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote:
Lo, on Thursday, June 20, Colin Watson did write:
If you care about dpkg's available file being up-to-date, you need to
run 'dselect update', which runs 'apt-get update' for you. You don't
need to run 'apt-get update' as well.
For some time now I have had nothing new from testing; I assumed this
was because of the freeze. However, the same seems to be happening with
unstable. I do an apt-get update and get the list of packages, but
nothing is scheduled to be upgraded. I mean that apt-get -s
dist-upgrade shows nothing to
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 03:59:30PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
For some time now I have had nothing new from testing; I assumed this
was because of the freeze. However, the same seems to be happening with
unstable. I do an apt-get update and get the list of packages, but
nothing is
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