David E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:08:06 +0200 > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You really should be specific to which version you're running. If > > you're running Sarge, you won't be getting many updates, if you're > > A related observation/question. I have been tracking 'etch' (as opposed > to 'testing' for many months now, starting shortly after sarge became > stable. This is the first time, though, that I've gone through a distro > upgrade with debian (i.e., etch -> lenny) and since etch went stable > last week, I haven't gotten a lot of updates, not that I would have > [snip] > > I thought odd that I would be having 'holds' still, does that mean that > these packages will never get upgraded unless and until I replace > 'etch' with 'lenny' in my sources.lst? And based on some prior list
As it was explained to me, following an aptitude upgrade with aptitude dist-upgrade solves this. Leave your sources.list as it is and do a dist-upgrade. You can use the "-s/--simulate" switch to check out what's going to happen without it really happening. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. Spammers! http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling/emails.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
