Re: apt-get and distro aliases

[Paul Gear <paul@gear.dyndns.org>]

Andreas Janssen wrote:
> ...
> 
>>I am now running unstable.  I just tried an update using "unstable"
>>and there was nothing new available.  Then I changed sources.list to 
>>"sid" and it retrieved 3217 kB.  However, when I ran upgrade, nothing 
>>was upgraded. Can anyone explain this behavior?  Thanks - John  
> 
> 
> Apt downloaded the package list. Because you changed the source name
> from unstable to sid, apt assumed this had to be done because the local
> list for the "new" source was missing.

Sorry - i gave slightly misleading info in my post.  I actually ended up
with additional packages to upgrade, and i successfully upgraded them.
Perhaps it was just coincidental timing.

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