Re: apt-get and glibc update

[Federico Grau <donfede@casagrau.org>]

Actually ... no :-( ... I commented that line out because I did not know what
it did and could see no mention of it in the man page (sources.list 5).

Why would security updates need a seperate sources line?  Shouldn't they
simply be considered part of the distribution?

thanks for your time,
donfede

On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:46:02PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> Federico Grau <donfede@casagrau.org> writes:
> 
> > Hello people, 
> > 
> > I am a relatively new debian user (a couple months), but long time 
> > linux user.  I am curious why the new glibc updates are not showing
> > up when I run apt-get.
> 
> Wild guess: you *do* have 
> 
>   deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
> 
> in your /etc/apt/sources.list, don't you?
> 
> > I am running potato, have run apt-get update, and also dpkg -l libc6, 
> > but the most recent version it lists is "2.1.3-10".  My sources.list 
> > file is pointing to a local mirror (tux.org)... the announcement and 
> > new packages were put out a couple days back, could it take that long 
> > for the mirrors to sync up?
> 
> Well it could, but probably didn't.  It may just be somewhere else (or
> not mirrored to begin with).  Wander around your mirrors equivalent of
> dists/potato and see what's there.  Security updates go into 'updates'
> first and whether/when they will be merged into 'main' ... who knows?
> 
> -- 
> Olaf Meeuwissen       Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development
> 
> 
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