Re: Debian Unstable not updating?

[Zaq Rizer <zrizer@yahoo.com>]

Kelly Harding wrote:

> Hi,
> I've been running Debian for about a year or two now.
>
> I've had no real problems I've not been able to sort out with using 
> google or the debian documentation.
>
> However, I appear to have a puzzling problem that I can't think where 
> best to look for answers.
>
> Doing 'apt-get update;apt-get -u dist-upgrade' doesn't produce any 
> updates to packages needed.
>
> However, I installed Knoppix onto another pc and I've just upgraded 
> this to a Debian Unstable system. Having updated it, I notice some of 
> the packages are more recent than on the pc with the apparant problem.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts on this?
>
> Where might I look to see if something is preventing a proper upgrade 
> calculation being perfomed or something similar?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kelly
Perhaps strace the apt-get process...see if it's generating any errors 
(I know strace is rather difficult to decipher...but a handy dash of 
grep and/or vi will help to sort through it all)...that's about my only 
recommendation.

Regards,
Zaq Rizer