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Re: Debian Unstable not updating?



Jules Dubois <pwfsm8z02@sneakemail.com> writes:

> On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 00:56:29 -0400, Zaq Rizer wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>
>> Perhaps strace the apt-get process...
>
> And check /etc/apt/preferences for the "Pin-Priority" of the
> distributions.  I had the same problem for months.  About two weeks
> ago, and a certain Martin J. Hillyer suggested this.

I don't think that is the problem.  Stable doesn't update frequently and
unstable hasn't had anything new in a couple days.  Probably because the
developers are working on getting sarge into stable by next month.

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