Re: apt-get and distro aliases
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 06:37:12AM -0500, John Fleming wrote:
> Reading recent threads, I plan to install Sarge and change apt sources to
> name-based, i.e. to "Sarge" rather than "testing". My understanding is that
> when Sarge becomes "stable", I will stay with Sarge and be able to get
> security updates.
>
> 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
Most likely there was an update between the times you checked. "sid"
and "unstable" are identical.
You didn't get anything on "upgrade" most likely because you do not
have any of the packages that were upgraded installed on your machine.
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