Re: aptitude not seeing updates in repository
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 12:48:27 -0800
"Todd A. Jacobs" <nospam@codegnome.org> wrote:
> One of my sources is:
>
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
>
> but despite repeated "sudo aptitude update" commands, I was still
> seeing old files (as in more than three weeks old) when running
> "apt-show-version -a <foo>" on a package.
>
> I added a kernel.org mirror, and things are back to normal, but I'd
> like to know how I should handle this in the future. Is there a way
> to force a full update, or to figure out why I'm not getting the
> most current list of repository files?
>
Didn't you read all the emails the last 2 days about the server going
down and how that ftp.debian.org shouldn't be used in the first place?
--
Raquel
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