Re: dselect problems in woody
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 02:25:29PM -0600, Christopher Brand wrote:
> For roughly the last week I have had many of the packages in dselect showing
> up as obsolete. This includes KDE, perl-5.6, netscape, and many other
> packages that I commonly use. I thought at first that there were
> replacements for these packages with new names but I couldn't find them.
>
> My instalation is woody, and my mirror is ftp.us.debian.org. Can anybody
> help me with this problem?
It's not a problem, just a temporary condition resulting from the
transition to package pools and the new links:
stable -> potato
testing -> woody
unstable -> sid
This gives an alternative to provide newer stuff than potato, with a
bit less risk than running unstable. Packages from unstable are moved
to testing after 14 days if no problems have occurred. Testing started
out a few days ago with just the packages which are linked to potato,
so anything else you had installed shows up as obsolete/local. In
time, the other packages will show up in dselect. If you can't (or
don't want to) wait, change sources.list to point to unstable instead
of woody.
--
Bob Nielsen, N7XY nielsen@oz.net
Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
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