On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 03:21:20PM -0700, Rob Mosher wrote: > Hi, > I recently made the update from Potato to Woody, yet for some > reason in dselect it does not list all of the packages availible > for Woody. I've run apt-get update (invoked from dselect and > otherwise) but this hasn't helped. If I look up a package at > http://packages.debian.org/testing/ I can get it with apt, and > it will then show up as installed in dselect, but unistalled > packages just don't show up in the list. Any ideas on how I can > get dselect to list all the packages availible to me? >
Hi Rob, Check configuration files in /etc/apt or /etc/dpkg to see if one of them has an option limiting what is displayed in dselect, or sets dselect to use stable/potato. One posibility is /etc/apt/preferences. If Pin-Priority for testing/woody is set below 100, dselect will probably behave as you describe. My /etc/preferences is: Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 90 Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 600 I can use apt-get to install unstable/sid packages, but sid packages are not listed by dselect unless they are installed. -- Jerome
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