Re: apt-get and distro aliases

[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 to upgrade, and i successfully upgraded them.
Perhaps it was just coincidental timing.
 

If your mirror is synchronising four times a day, the chances are quite 
good.


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