Re: Daily Updates
David E. Fox <dfox@m206-157.dsl.tsoft.com>:
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:08:06 +0200
> Joe Hart <j.hart@orange.nl> wrote:
>
> > You really should be specific to which version you're running. If
> > you're running Sarge, you won't be getting many updates, if you're
>
> A related observation/question. I have been tracking 'etch' (as opposed
> to 'testing' for many months now, starting shortly after sarge became
> stable. This is the first time, though, that I've gone through a distro
> upgrade with debian (i.e., etch -> lenny) and since etch went stable
> last week, I haven't gotten a lot of updates, not that I would have
> [snip]
>
> I thought odd that I would be having 'holds' still, does that mean that
> these packages will never get upgraded unless and until I replace
> 'etch' with 'lenny' in my sources.lst? And based on some prior list
As it was explained to me, following an aptitude upgrade with aptitude
dist-upgrade solves this. Leave your sources.list as it is and do a
dist-upgrade. You can use the "-s/--simulate" switch to check out
what's going to happen without it really happening.
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