On Friday 11 February 2005 07:50 pm, Mark Robinson wrote: > aptitude does not handle missing .deb files correctly. > > It marks them as upgraded [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No, it doesn't. Here's what I think is happening: your "apt-upgrade" script always updates the index files, then does a "dist-upgrade". If you look at the second invocation of aptitude, you'll see that it *downloaded the Packages files again*! Now, since it doesn't download files if what you have is identical to what's on the server, I believe that it probably downloaded the "older" versions of those files. So of course nothing appeared to be upgradable. Then, when you ran apt-get, it again downloaded a different version of the Packages files, so that it saw the upgrades again. Daniel -- /------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------\ | "Fluble, the others want you to know that we | | have you surrounded with tranquilizer rifles | | and are prepared to use them. Again." -- Fluble | \------ (if (not (understand-this)) (go-to http://www.schemers.org)) -------/
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