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Re: Debian Unstable not updating?



On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 00:56:29 -0400, Zaq Rizer wrote:

> Kelly Harding wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> I've been running Debian for about a year or two now.
>>
>> I've had no real problems I've not been able to sort out with using
>> google or the debian documentation.
>>
>> However, I appear to have a puzzling problem that I can't think where
>> best to look for answers.
>>
>> Doing 'apt-get update;apt-get -u dist-upgrade' doesn't produce any
>> updates to packages needed.
>>
> Perhaps strace the apt-get process...

And check /etc/apt/preferences for the "Pin-Priority" of the
distributions.  I had the same problem for months.  About two weeks
ago, and a certain Martin J. Hillyer suggested this.

Thank you, Mr. Hillyer.



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