Re: apt-get and distro aliases
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 06:37:12 -0500, John Fleming 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.
I hope you'll allow me to interrupt your thread for a related question
without really answering yours.
I fixed my broken sources.list a few months ago, among other things
changing "unstable" to "sid"; afterward, 'aptitude update' worked as I
expected again. Starting last week, 'update' retrieved no package file.
Today, I changed "sid" back to "unstable", and retrieved a 3 MB package
file plus package files for "non-us" which I had not been getting.
In one of the examples in 'man sources.list', the "distribution" field is
given as "unstable". Should the use of "unstable" versus "sid" make a
difference? If so, which of the two is recommended or required?
> However, when I ran upgrade, nothing was upgraded. Can anyone explain
> this behavior?
Nothing I've installed is upgradable at the moment (except "tetex-doc"
which has been available for a while.
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