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Re: Experimental not installing



On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 02:22:16PM -0700, Daniel Schepler wrote:
> I added the 
>   deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian project/experimental/main/binary-i386/
> line to my sources.list, and the Packages file is downloading fine.
> But apt-get upgrade is just leaving the 2.2-alpha1-3 versions of
> packages and not upgrading to 2.2-cvs20010503-1.  apt-cache even shows
> the 2.2-cvs20010503-1 versions of packages.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening?  I'd rather not
> have to go through and force apt to upgrade each package with 'apt-get
> install abbrowser=4:2.2-cvs20010503-1', etc.

it's because experimental is set to not automatically upgrade as there are
stuff in there that is truely experimental.  You can either do it the nasty
way  apt-get install package/experimental   or wait until I do my next upload.

Ivan

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