Re: Updating not working as expected
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Jon N <jdnandroid@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed Jessie on a new computer about 2 months ago. I needed
> Jessie to support my network interface. Since then I noticed that I
> seeing almost no updates in Synaptic, or when using apt-get. During
> the same period on my old computer (also running Jessie) see packages
> almost constantly updating.
Jessie? TBOMK it is still not released.
>
> I did look at a few things on both systems previously and didn't see
> anything I could recognize as causing the difference. Today however I
> opened the preferences in Synaptic and changed the preferred
> distribution from 'Always prefer highest' to 'Prefer versions from
> Testing'. Low and behold I now have a very large number of updates
> waiting.
>
> But, I don't think I should have to make that change to get normal
> updates. I'm thinking this has something to do with the repositories,
> which are different between the 2 computers. Here is my repositories
> list:
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates non-free contrib main
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates non-free contrib main
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates non-free contrib main
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports main contrib non-free
> deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ jessie main non-free
> deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/debian/ jessie main
> # deb http://linux.dropbox.com/debian/ wheezy main
>
> My guess is the behavior I'm seeing is related to either the
> 'jessie-backports' or 'jessie-updates' repositories, but I don't know
> why I ended up with them or why I would (or would not) want them.
> Should I just change them to 'jessie'?
>
Personally I'm dubious if using `jessie` instead of `testing` atm should
even work - considering that it is basically testing for the time being.
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