Re: apt-get and distro aliases

2004-08-25 Thread Paul Gear
John Summerfield wrote: >... >> Sorry - i gave slightly misleading info in my post. I actually ended up >> with additional packages to upgrade, and i successfully upgraded them. >> Perhaps it was just coincidental timing. >> >> >> > If your mirror is synchronising four times a day, the chances a

Re: apt-get and distro aliases

2004-08-24 Thread Jules Dubois
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 06:37:12 -0500, John Fleming wrote: > I am now running unstable. I just tried an update using "unstable" and > there was nothing new available. Then I changed sources.list to "sid" > and it retrieved 3217 kB. I hope you'll allow me to interrupt your thread for a related ques

Re: apt-get and distro aliases

2004-08-24 Thread Tim Kelley
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 06:37:12AM -0500, John Fleming wrote: > Reading recent threads, I plan to install Sarge and change apt sources to > name-based, i.e. to "Sarge" rather than "testing". My understanding is that > when Sarge becomes "stable", I will stay with Sarge and be able to get > securit

Re: apt-get and distro aliases

2004-08-24 Thread John Summerfield
Paul Gear wrote: Apt downloaded the package list. Because you changed the source name from unstable to sid, apt assumed this had to be done because the local list for the "new" source was missing. Sorry - i gave slightly misleading info in my post. I actually ended up with additional packages

Re: apt-get and distro aliases

2004-08-24 Thread Paul Gear
Andreas Janssen wrote: > ... > >>I am now running unstable. I just tried an update using "unstable" >>and there was nothing new available. Then I changed sources.list to >>"sid" and it retrieved 3217 kB. However, when I ran upgrade, nothing >>was upgraded. Can anyone explain this behavior? T

Re: apt-get and distro aliases

2004-08-24 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello John Fleming (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Reading recent threads, I plan to install Sarge and change apt sources > to name-based, i.e. to "Sarge" rather than "testing". My > understanding is that when Sarge becomes "stable", I will stay with > Sarge and be able to get security updates.

Re: apt-get and distro aliases

2004-08-24 Thread Paul Gear
John Fleming wrote: > Reading recent threads, I plan to install Sarge and change apt sources to > name-based, i.e. to "Sarge" rather than "testing". My understanding is that > when Sarge becomes "stable", I will stay with Sarge and be able to get > security updates. > > I am now running unstable.

apt-get and distro aliases

2004-08-24 Thread John Fleming
Reading recent threads, I plan to install Sarge and change apt sources to name-based, i.e. to "Sarge" rather than "testing". My understanding is that when Sarge becomes "stable", I will stay with Sarge and be able to get security updates. I am now running unstable. I just tried an update using "