sailor

I have two boxes running the Debian testing distro. I apt-get upgrade them once a week, but for the past 3 or so weeks, everytime I run the apt-get update, nothing is found. This isnt normal, especially not for so long a time. Has anything changed with the apt repository? I didnt see anything about it on the Debian site. Any other suggestions?

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bendsley

I haven't seen any changes in the repository lately. They may just me busy with Woody, since it just went to r5 release.

Also, sometimes the "testing" derivation stays dry for a period of time. Now, if you had said "sid", I would assume something is wrong.

Why are you running "sarge" and why the hell are you running apt-get?
If you're a true Debian fan, run "sid (unstable, everything usually works fine)" and use aptitude instead of apt-get. Apt-get is so, 80s.

What is aptitude?
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aptitude is a terminal-based apt frontend with a number of useful features, including: a mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a flexible manner, dselect-like persistence of user actions, the ability to retrieve and display the Debian changelog of most packages, and extreme flexibility and customization.

aptitude is also Y2K-compliant, non-fattening, naturally cleansing, and housebroken.

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sailor

I did it today and a bunch were found. I guess it was a dry spell.

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