Re: Updating not working as expected

2014-02-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 10 February 2014 01:25:10 Jon N wrote: > Well, the choice of jessie or testing doesn't seem to explain the > trouble I was experiencing with the lack of updates. No, I was answering darkestkhan, not you. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: Updating not working as expected

2014-02-09 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Use "apt-cache policy" to see what are your repositories' priorities, and than adjust them in /etc/apt/preferences. That synaptic option probably changes Default-Release in apt.conf[.d/], but, I don't recommend it because I think it's simpler to specify everyting in /etc/apt/preferences. -- http:

Re: Updating not working as expected

2014-02-09 Thread Jon N
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 09 February 2014 18:05:52 darkestkhan wrote: >> Personally I'm dubious if using `jessie` instead of `testing` atm >> should even work - considering that it is basically testing for the >> time being. > > The beauty of using the name, Je

Re: Updating not working as expected

2014-02-09 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 09 February 2014 18:05:52 darkestkhan wrote: > Personally I'm dubious if using `jessie` instead of `testing` atm > should even work - considering that it is basically testing for the > time being. The beauty of using the name, Jessie, instead of Testing is that when Jessie becomes Stabl

Re: Updating not working as expected

2014-02-09 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 1:05 PM, darkestkhan wrote: > On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Jon N wrote: >> >> 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 m

Re: Updating not working as expected

2014-02-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 09 feb 14, 18:05:52, darkestkhan wrote: > > Personally I'm dubious if using `jessie` instead of `testing` atm should > even work - considering that it is basically testing for the time being. Of course it works. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic d

Re: Updating not working as expected

2014-02-09 Thread darkestkhan
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Jon N 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 comput

Updating not working as expected

2014-02-08 Thread Jon N
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 u