Re: Lots of updates!
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 14:22:51 +0200, Ronald Castillo wrote:
> I haven't done an 'apt-get dist-upgrade -u' for about a month,
Which means you probably haven't noticed the percolation of a newer glibc
from sid to sarge; see http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=920 .
> ronaldace:/home/ronald# apt-get dist-upgrade -u
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> fetchmail-common
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> gcc-3.2-base
> The following packages will be upgraded
> fetchmail fetchmailconf
> But, for example, I don't know why my system wants to get rid of fetchmail
It doesn't. It wants to remove fetchmail-common, but wants to upgrade
fetchmail as well. Looks like the fetchmail maintainer did some
reorganisation, perhaps moving fetchmail-common's files into the main
fetchmail package.
> and install gcc 3.2.
It's now the standard compiler.
> Please let me know if this is a normal thing
Looks like it.
HTH,
Ray
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