Re: strange debian behavior
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 01:50:36AM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that my GNOME2 install (all from experimental) was quite
> unstable. But when looking at deselect, I found something strange; it
> says:
>
> *** Opt x11 gnome-contro 1.99.10-2 1.99.10-2 The GNOME Control Center for GNOME2
>
> But when I look at the corresponding file
> /var/lib/apt/lists ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_.._project_experimental_main_binary-i386_Packages
> I see:
>
> Package: gnome-control-center2
> Priority: optional
> Section: x11
> Installed-Size: 3056
> Maintainer: Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org>
> Architecture: i386
> Source: control-center2
> Version: 2.0.0-1
>
> Perhaps that's why apt-get doesn't want to upgrade it ? I really don't
> know where this discrepancy comes from.
> Could you help me fix this please ? (Cc: me, I'm not on the list)
>
> Thanks,
> Xav
My guess is that the reason dselect does not show the updated package is
that you have done an "apt-get update" rather than a "dselect update".
The former does *not* update dselect's available packages list. Run
"dselect update" and check it again :-)
Cheers,
Timshel
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