Re: Problems with apt..
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Jules Bean wrote:
>
> > Could you investigate this, please?
>
> Well I can't duplicate it and this is horribly un-specific. Next time
> something like this seems to happen run
>
> apt-cache showpkg <foo>
>
> Where foo is the package you think is having issues, then go look in
> /var/state/apt/lists/www*jules*Packages and clip out the relevent entry.
>
> Oh, there was a bug at one point in the apt->dselect interface where it
> would select the wrong version. It is fixed in CVS apt and some of the
> 0.3.0's that are floating around. There should be an 0.3.1 release soon..
More info..
It does sound like we were seeing the above problem.
apt-cache showpkg <foo> *did* show the newest versions as being available
at my site, as well as the others - so it was selecting the wrong version.
I'll tell you if it ever crops up with the new version.
Jules
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