Kushal Kumaran wrote:
> On 4/12/07, Tom Allison <tom@tacocat.net> wrote:
>> I'm trying to do:
>> apt-get install -t unstable dbmail dbmail-pgsql libglib2.0-data
>> and I can't seem to "see" the unstable branches.
>>
>> sources.list:
>>
>> # sources.list generated by apt-spy v3.1
>> deb http://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/debian/ stable main contrib
>> non-free
>> deb http://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/debian/ testing main contrib
>> non-free
>> deb http://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/debian/ unstable main contrib
>> non-free
>> deb-src http://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/debian/ stable main contrib
>> non-free
>> deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
>>
>> deb http://debian.nfgd.net/debian unstable main
>> ---------------------------------
>>
>> apt-get install -t unstable dbmail dbmail-pgsql libglib2.0-data
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree... Done
>> Suggested packages:
>> sqlite3
>> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>> dbmail dbmail-pgsql libglib2.0-data
>> 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 75 not upgraded.
>> Need to get 601kB of archives.
>> After unpacking 3441kB of additional disk space will be used.
>> Get:1 http://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu testing/main dbmail 2.2.3-1 [288kB]
>> Get:2 http://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu testing/main dbmail-pgsql 2.2.3-1
>> [17.2kB]
>> Get:3 http://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu unstable/main libglib2.0-data
>> 2.12.11-2 [295kB]
>>
>
> That's because currently the same version of dbmail is in both testing
> and unstable. If you wait a while until a new version hits unstable,
> you'll see apt pick up the unstable version.
>
This part I understand...
>>
>> I didn't even see the last source [debian.nfgd.net] to pick up a later
>> package...
>>
>
> I don't understand.
I have an additional deb entry for debian.nfgd.net which is the dbmail project
debian package server. It didn't try to pick this up in the apt-get command.
But there is a newer version of the package available from there.