Re: No updates seen in a while



On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 09:45:26AM -0400, Stephen Powell uttered:
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 03:50:22 -0400 (EDT), Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 31 Mar 2010, S.D.A. wrote:
Speaking of this issue (FTP master being down); I did an 'aptitude
update' for my SID laptop this morning. Says over 900 packages need to
be updated! Now I know it's been a few days since we received updates,
and I update every day prior to the downtime; Surely that can't be
right, can it?


No updates available here, either on ftp.de.debian.org or
ftp.uk.debian.org.

S.D.A:

I am assuming that you canceled out of it and did not do the updates.
If that is the case, try issuing the following commands:

Of course! 8)

aptitude keep-all
aptitude update
aptitude full-upgrade

and see what you get.

Thanks, I know my way around Aptitude. I was just querying about the
number of updates on a system that's updated daily. It seems that I
got in on a very brief window; maybe when some hardware was brought up
temporaily (who knows) and it's a false reading. Thought maybe that
testing had gone to stable, yadda, yadda.


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