On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 07:17 -0800, Kirchner, Patrick wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been running Debian unstable/Sid for 6 months or so and am really
> enjoying it. I've been keeping things up-to-dates with "apt-get
> update; apt-get -u upgrade", and would install updates every week or
> two. In the last few weeks I started noticing a long list of packages
> that were described as being "kept back" or "held back", so I did an
> "apt-get dist-upgrade" and no longer get the message about the
> packages being "kept back".
>
> Was there a shift in what was considered Sid, so that when I thought I
> was still running Sid/unstable I was actual running
> Sarge/testing? Did I correct the situation by running "apt-get
> dist-upgrade" and am I once again running the Sid/unstable?
>
> Here is my sources.list file:
>
> #Debian Unstable
> deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ unstable main non-free
> contrib
>
> I'm not having any problems per say, but I'm just a bit confused about
> what happened. If someone could shed some light on the situation I'd
> be most appreciative.
You are still running Sid. Since your sources.list only contains
Sid, how could it be otherwise?
This is why you were getting hold backs:
$ man apt-get
[snip]
upgrade
upgrade is used to install the newest versions of
all packages currently installed on the system
from the sources enumerated in
/etc/apt/sources.list. Packages currently in-
stalled with new versions available are retrieved
and upgraded; under no circumstances are currently
installed packages removed, or packages not al-
ready installed retrieved and installed. New ver-
sions of currently installed packages that cannot
be upgraded without changing the install status of
another package will be left at their current ver-
sion. An update must be performed first so that
apt-get knows that new versions of packages are
available.
dist-upgrade doesn't have that limitation. Another way to get rid
of them would have been to manually install the held-back packages.
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