Re: What is happening to testing/unstable?
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 11:50:58AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 20 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Run 'dselect update'.
>
> Many thanks; that seems to have fixed it!
>
> Isn't it supposed to be run automatically by apt-get?
No; 'dselect update' is a superset of 'apt-get update' (if dselect is
configured to use the apt method, which is the default these days), not
the other way round.
Arguably it shouldn't be that way, but there are a number of complicated
historical reasons.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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