[Please wrap your lines! It makes it much easier to read, and thus more likely that you'll get a response. Anywhere between 70 and 80 is acceptable; 72 seems to be a nice value.] On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:25:24PM -0800, S Yuval wrote: > I recently bought the Debian 3.0r1 7-CD set and am trying to upgrade > some obsolete packages. You're using woody? Aside from a couple of security updates, nothing has changed in woody since r1 was released. Are you sure you're not using testing? > However, it turns out that if I ask apt to > update its package database, most packages I have on the CD-set become > obsolete and can no longer be installed conveniently through dselect. > Since I cannot afford to spend nights downloading new packages for my > entire system, and I purchased the CDs to avoid having to do that, is > there any way to tell apt-get to update only the critically important > packages like glibc, libstdc++, ncurses, etc. and not the entire > system? Hmmm, I'm almost certain that there have not been DSA's issued about glibc, ncurses and libstdc++ in the past month or however long it's been r1 was released. glibc hasn't even changed in sarge for months now. Are you using sid, perchance? -rob
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