Re: apt-get and glibc update

2000-09-06 Thread Nate Amsden
Federico Grau wrote: > - I am disturbed that it does not tell me the package names before performing >the upgrade (if I recall correctly, normal "apt-get upgrade"s do)?! that one i can't answer it'd be nice if it did! i get the same .. > > - What is the significance of "communicator being

Re: apt-get and glibc update

2000-09-06 Thread Federico Grau
Ok folks, thanks for your help so far. Next questions, 1) I added ( deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main ) to my sources.list file... I briefly checked (re-ran apt-setup) to see if I could use my local mirror (tux.org) for the security updates... but it appears this section is not

Re: apt-get and glibc update

2000-09-05 Thread Nate Amsden
Federico Grau wrote: > > Actually ... no :-( ... I commented that line out because I did not know what > it did and could see no mention of it in the man page (sources.list 5). > > Why would security updates need a seperate sources line? Shouldn't they > simply be considered part of the distribu

Re: apt-get and glibc update

2000-09-05 Thread Federico Grau
Actually ... no :-( ... I commented that line out because I did not know what it did and could see no mention of it in the man page (sources.list 5). Why would security updates need a seperate sources line? Shouldn't they simply be considered part of the distribution? thanks for your time, donf

Re: apt-get and glibc update

2000-09-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Federico Grau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello people, > > I am a relatively new debian user (a couple months), but long time > linux user. I am curious why the new glibc updates are not showing > up when I run apt-get. Wild guess: you *do* have deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/u

Re: apt-get and glibc update

2000-09-04 Thread Eric G . Miller
Do you have a line in /etc/apt/sources.list like: deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates main contrib non-free or deb http://security.debian.org slink updates ? See http://www.debian.org/security/ On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:33:17AM -0400, Federico Grau wrote: > Hello people,