> Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:11:59 -0700 > From: "Robert G. Scofield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [vox-tech] Apt Question > To: LUGOD Tech <vox-tech@lists.lugod.org> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > When I do "apt-upgrade" now there is a message that alsa-base and > alsa-utils > have been kept back. Why have they been kept back? > > Is it because alsa needs an upgrade of a dependency so that if the > packages > alsa is dependent upon are upgraded in the future, then alsa will be > upgraded > later? > > Thank you. > > Bob When I had this it was because the testing versions of alsa-base and alsa-utils required a later version of udev than 0.60 , which is only available in unstable. So I already had the unstable source also in my sources.list, but as lower priority, so I was able to override priority and install the unstable version of udev which does not conflict with the testing version of alsa. Read the apt man page for information on how to do this. Also, it is my understanding that when the testing version of alsa becomes greater than my current version, my current version that came from unstable will be replaced by the testing version because testing is my default release. Besides the man page, this document http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ is also useful. Nick
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