I have been using a script to update my machine every few days to keep it up to date. The only problem is that lately I have been noticing that none of my packages have been updating. I thought that maybe this was a result of non-us to main change over, but it doesnt make sense. When ever I would go to install a package I could do an apt-get update 2 seconds before and apt-get would still be unable to find some of the packages I was trying to install. Then I would do another apt-get update and it could find the packages then. I thought this was really weird. Then last night my script ran again and a bunch of packages were needing to be upgraded. Now my script attempted to download them all, but a bunch of them were unfetchable. I thought this was super weird so I added the main archive at ftp.us.debian.org to my sources.list file and everything came through just fine. I have been using debian.rutgers.edu for my source and before that I was using debian.lcs.mit.edu (or something like that) but that apparently went off the air. I havent checked back for a while. I was wondering if someone knew of a good archive in the north east of the U.S. that is fast and reliable, or is this just a problem with the mirroring system caused by the non-us to main transition?
Also I have been using apt pinning for a while now and on my upgrade today I noticed that apt was trying to fetch a lot of packages from unstable. The number of packages it was trying to fetch was slightly disconcerting to me because I dont believe I have that many packages from unstable. Maybe Im wrong, but should my attached preferences file only get packages from unstable if they arent available in testing? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you. -- -Peace kid Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "God's the ultimate playa, so naturally He's going to have some haters," rapper Ice Cube said. "But these haters need to realize that if you mess with the man upstairs, you will get your ass smote. True dat." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
