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Re: "apt-cache show" shows wrong version of package



On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 08:55:43AM +0200, Holger Rauch wrote:
> (This is correct). But doing "apt-cache show libc6" reports
> 
> Package: libc6
> [...]
> Version: 2.2.5-10
> 
> AND in addition
> 
> Package: libc6
> [...]
> Version: 2.2.5-9.woody.4
> 
> (This was the previous version)
> 
> AND another one
> 
> Package: libc6
> [...]
> Version: 2.2.5-6
> 
> (The version before 2.2.5-9.woody.4)

That will be:

  2.2.5-6          => woody
  2.2.5-9.woody.4  => woody-proposed-updates
  2.2.5-10         => woody security updates

apt-cache is just telling you about all the versions referred to by
repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list. Eventually they'll be brought
into sync, but the glibc security update was quite recent and ran into
several technical problems so it hasn't quite been tidied up yet.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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