On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 08:08:28 -0500, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
> Marc Wilson wrote:
> >On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> >
> >>So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being
> >>upgradeable?
> >
> >
> ><shrug> Because the packages file lists it, but the mirror is incompletely
> >updated. Use another mirror or wait for the mirror pulse to finish. You
> >won't die.
> >
> >Sheesh. Not like this is rocket science.
>
> Ok, it's October 22nd and I still can't get "nvidia-kernel-source"
> off the mirror I'm using. How long do these "pulses" take?
>
> Here is my sources.list:
>
> andy:/home/hgh# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> deb http://archive.progeny.com/debian testing main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://archive.progeny.com/debian testing main contrib non-free
> deb http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing
> testing/security-updates main contrib non-free
The package is not in Etch at all at the moment and the same goes for
nvidia-glx:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers.html
[2006-04-18] nvidia-graphics-drivers REMOVED from testing
If your package manager lists these packages as upgradable then you
either have not run "update" in a while or the progeny mirror is
seriously broken or you have found a bug in the package manager.
--
Regards,
Florian
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