On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 09:45:26AM -0400, Stephen Powell uttered: > On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 03:50:22 -0400 (EDT), Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 31 Mar 2010, S.D.A. wrote: > >> Speaking of this issue (FTP master being down); I did an 'aptitude > >> update' for my SID laptop this morning. Says over 900 packages need to > >> be updated! Now I know it's been a few days since we received updates, > >> and I update every day prior to the downtime; Surely that can't be > >> right, can it? > > > > > > No updates available here, either on ftp.de.debian.org or > > ftp.uk.debian.org. > > S.D.A: > > I am assuming that you canceled out of it and did not do the updates. > If that is the case, try issuing the following commands:
Of course! 8) > aptitude keep-all > aptitude update > aptitude full-upgrade > > and see what you get. Thanks, I know my way around Aptitude. I was just querying about the number of updates on a system that's updated daily. It seems that I got in on a very brief window; maybe when some hardware was brought up temporaily (who knows) and it's a false reading. Thought maybe that testing had gone to stable, yadda, yadda. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100402112959.gc9...@google.com
