I'm following Etch and apt is reporting no new packages for a touch over a week.
>From past experience I know that this is highly unlikely. Also, a friend runs
nearly the same setup as I have and he is still getting daily updates. Any ideas
what I could check/do?


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On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 09:38:00PM -0600, William Jensen wrote:
> I'm following Etch and apt is reporting no new packages for a touch
> over a week. From past experience I know that this is highly
> unlikely. Also, a friend runs nearly the same setup as I have and he
> is still getting daily updates. Any ideas what I could check/do?

Try changing the mirror that you're using (in /etc/apt/sources.list).

Sometimes some mirrors don't get updated...

Cheers,

Paul

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William Jensen wrote:
> I'm following Etch and apt is reporting no new packages for a touch over a week.
>>From past experience I know that this is highly unlikely. Also, a friend runs
> nearly the same setup as I have and he is still getting daily updates. Any ideas
> what I could check/do?

Make sure your /etc/apt/sources.list is pointed at an official Debian
mirror and if you can get a specific example from your friend of
something that updated on his machine but not yours, hunt down which
mirror he got it from and see if your mirror is getting updates properly.

He also may have other things installed that you don't, so he's getting
updates to packages you don't have installed.

Nate


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On Nov 29, 11:00 pm, William Jensen <jens...@bodach.org> wrote:
> I'm following Etch and apt is reporting no new packages for a touch over a week.>From past experience I know that this is highly unlikely. Also, a friend runsnearly the same setup as I have and he is still getting daily updates. Any ideas
> what I could check/do?
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Apparently there is a new Debian key making the rounds without good
instructions for installing it yet.
This broke the local mirror I was using to update my system.

See:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=503417
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Nate Duehr(nate@natetech.com) is reported to have said:
> William Jensen wrote:
> >I'm following Etch and apt is reporting no new packages for a touch over a
> >week.
>
> Make sure your /etc/apt/sources.list is pointed at an official Debian
> mirror and if you can get a specific example from your friend of
> something that updated on his machine but not yours, hunt down which
> mirror he got it from and see if your mirror is getting updates properly.
>

I found that while testing apt-cacher I had the same problem, If I
didn't use the cacher, I got 50 updates. But... while trying to find
'working' mirrors, from the current mirror list, I found many that
were just not there. Some of the mirrors took three tries to get a
working package list. See previous post on that problem.

Here are todays results of a netselect run on the first 7 in the
latest mirror list of US sites.

netselect -vv ftp.us.debian.org http.us.debian.org ftp.debian.org
debian.crosslink.net ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu ftp.egr.msu.edu
ike.egr.msu.edu

204.152.191.7 251 ms 12 hops 90% ok ( 9/10) [ 613]
128.101.240.212 225 ms 11 hops 70% ok ( 7/10) [ 676]
35.9.37.225 218 ms 15 hops 57% ok ( 4/ 7) [ 952]
ftp.debian.org 225 ms 11 hops 70% ok ( 7/10) [ 674]
debian.crosslink.net 217 ms 15 hops 90% ok ( 9/10) [ 605]
128.61.111.11 9999 ms 30 hops 0% ok
128.61.111.10 9999 ms 30 hops 0% ok
128.61.111.9 9999 ms 30 hops 0% ok
ftp.egr.msu.edu 198 ms 15 hops 60% ok ( 6/10) [ 825]
128.101.80.133 9999 ms 30 hops 0% ok
35.9.37.225 202 ms 15 hops 50% ok ( 5/10) [ 1010]
216.37.55.114 9999 ms 30 hops 0% ok
208.185.25.35 9999 ms 30 hops 0% ok
ike.egr.msu.edu 200 ms 15 hops 50% ok ( 5/10) [ 1002]
605 debian.crosslink.net

It seems a waste but it looks like having more then one mirror in the
sources.list might be necessary.

Wayne

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On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 09:38:00PM -0600, William Jensen wrote:
> I'm following Etch and apt is reporting no new packages for a touch
> over a week.

I've been seeing the same behaviour over the past week or so, with
/etc/apt/sources.list configured with:

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian etch main

Everything seems to be working again after changing the entry to:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian etch main


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