On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Jon N <jdnandr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I installed Jessie on a new computer about 2 months ago. I needed > Jessie to support my network interface. Since then I noticed that I > seeing almost no updates in Synaptic, or when using apt-get. During > the same period on my old computer (also running Jessie) see packages > almost constantly updating.
Jessie? TBOMK it is still not released. > > I did look at a few things on both systems previously and didn't see > anything I could recognize as causing the difference. Today however I > opened the preferences in Synaptic and changed the preferred > distribution from 'Always prefer highest' to 'Prefer versions from > Testing'. Low and behold I now have a very large number of updates > waiting. > > But, I don't think I should have to make that change to get normal > updates. I'm thinking this has something to do with the repositories, > which are different between the 2 computers. Here is my repositories > list: > > deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free > deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates non-free contrib main > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib > deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates non-free contrib main > deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates non-free contrib main > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports main contrib non-free > deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports main contrib > non-free > deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ jessie main non-free > deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/debian/ jessie main > # deb http://linux.dropbox.com/debian/ wheezy main > > My guess is the behavior I'm seeing is related to either the > 'jessie-backports' or 'jessie-updates' repositories, but I don't know > why I ended up with them or why I would (or would not) want them. > Should I just change them to 'jessie'? > Personally I'm dubious if using `jessie` instead of `testing` atm should even work - considering that it is basically testing for the time being. -- darkestkhan ------------------------------------------ Feel free to CC me. jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with You. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cacrpbmg9d2ashenl_1kz-spdxjqv2hpk16-mnbqs-u55uhd...@mail.gmail.com
