Re: 7->8: inexplicable difficulty discovering available package versions
On 2017-02-03 14:04 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> I just did an apt-get dist-upgrade to reach Jessie 8.7 from
> Wheezy. It's still using 3.16 kernel and Xorg server 1.12.4. apt-cache
> search linux-image shows me the various kernel versions to choose from
> backports, but apt-cache search xserver-xorg-core produces a short
> list with no versions. What am I doing wrong to not have been upgraded
> to Jessie's Xorg server version, and why doesn't apt-cache search give
> any version info?
My hunch is that you don't actually have an entry for jessie in your
sources.list, but only one for jessie-backports. That is not going to
work well.
> Also, apt-get update produces a BADSIG GPG error for
> jessie-backports. How does one go about cleaning that up?
Does this still happen after upgrading the debian-archive-keyring to the
jessie version?
Cheers,
Sven
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