Robert Ramiega wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 03:19:03PM +0200, Ruud Janssen wrote: > > Short question: > > > > Is it possible to point apt to dists/stable-upgrades > > to update the system with the latest bugfix releases > > of all installed packages? > sure > put > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists stable-updates/ > > i use something similar to access non-US stuff >
Hi, This doesn't seem to work for me. This is my /etc/apt/sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Debian/dists/ stable-updates/ deb ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Debian stable main contrib non-us First, "apt-get update" is indeed fetching the Packages files from all of the sources specified in sources.list. Since this is okay, I think there's nothing wrong with sources.list. Second, "apt-get upgrade" comes up with a number of packages selected for an upgrade. This looks fine too. But when "apt-get upgrade" is fetching "cfingerd" (the first package) I get an error. If you look in stable-updates, you'll find that there are many versions of cfingerd: .diff.gz, .dsc, _i386.changes, _i386.deb, _m68k.changes and _m68k.deb. My guess: apt-get doesn't "know" it should only get the _i386.deb, and therefore halts when it is trying to get the .diff.gz. So my question remains: is it possible at all to use the stable-updates directory for an automatic upgrade? Thanks for your time, Ruud Janssen.
