On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 01:45:55PM +0200, Mikael Magnusson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 09:34:30PM -0400, Anthony Costa wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 06:10:27PM -0700, Aaron Tomb wrote: > > > I'm having a very strange problem. As of about a week ago, apt-get stopped > > > noticing new packages and upgrading them. It still downloads package lists, and > > > if I tell it a specific package version, as in: > > > > > > apt-get install mozilla-firefox=0.9.1-5 > > > > > > it'll install the newer version. However, if I just say 'apt-get upgrade' (or > > > dist-upgrade, or dselect-upgrade), it says that there are no new packages. I'm > > > using apt 0.5.26, dpkg 1.10.23, and dselect 1.10.23. No one else I've talked to > > > is having this problem, so I think it's an issue of configuration, rather than > > > a bug in apt. But I've had no luck trying to fix it. I've changed my > > > sources.list several times, to try different mirrors, to no avail. Does anyone > > > have any idea what might be wrong? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Aaron > > > > > i'm having the exact same problem. i'm currently tracking unstable and > > testing, w/ unstable src. i've consolidated my sources.list to the > > bare minimum (testing main contrib + updates), all to no avail. ideas? > > > > > Hi, > mozilla-firefox-0.9.1-5 hasn't entered testing yet. Run apt-cache policy to > view versions available in sources.list and installed and candidate version. > [...]
Sorry, I missed the original post, so I'm replying to a reply. I had this problem about a month ago. After thrashing around quite a bit, including composing a message to d-u which I never sent, I found that something had messed with the /etc/apt/preferences file. All the pin-priority numbers were reversed from whta I thought they should be (I track unstable). After I changed them back to what I thought they should be, with unstable having the highest number, things returned to normal. Unfortunately I don't know how the file got changed since it took me a couple of weeks to figure it out. This brings me to another point - what should the assigned numbers be? On my system they had been changed to - stable:1001, testing:101, unstable:99. I changed this to stable:100, testing:900, unstable:1000 and this seems to work OK. My question is: what should these numbers be ideally? Or is it perfectly arbitrary? Did I even find the correct solution? I'm sure this is all in the docs somewhere, but I haven't found it yet. -- Martin Hillyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
