RE: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Rhett [mailto:jrhett@isite.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 3:52 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; Alex Malinovich
> Subject: Re: What's the best package manager for
> single-package upgrades?
> Let me rephrase. Either the US mirrors are screwed, or there
> is less than
> a dozen packages in testing. Because adding testing to the
> sources list
> and doing an apt-get update (which was successful) and then trying to
> upgrade packages gets me next to nothing. I found hundreds
> more packages
> in 'security' than I did in testing, which actually baffles
> me since they
> should have much of the same content according to the debian
> guidelines.
>
Try adding this line to your /etc/apt/apt.conf file and see if you get
better results with your 'apt-get update':
APT::Default-Release "testing";
I learned this trick from 'man 8 apt-get'
-Jason
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