On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 06:37:12 -0500, John Fleming wrote: > I am now running unstable. I just tried an update using "unstable" and > there was nothing new available. Then I changed sources.list to "sid" > and it retrieved 3217 kB.
I hope you'll allow me to interrupt your thread for a related question without really answering yours. I fixed my broken sources.list a few months ago, among other things changing "unstable" to "sid"; afterward, 'aptitude update' worked as I expected again. Starting last week, 'update' retrieved no package file. Today, I changed "sid" back to "unstable", and retrieved a 3 MB package file plus package files for "non-us" which I had not been getting. In one of the examples in 'man sources.list', the "distribution" field is given as "unstable". Should the use of "unstable" versus "sid" make a difference? If so, which of the two is recommended or required? > However, when I ran upgrade, nothing was upgraded. Can anyone explain > this behavior? Nothing I've installed is upgradable at the moment (except "tetex-doc" which has been available for a while. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
