Dapper: maintaining sources.list

Thilo Six T.Six at gmx.de
Sat Jul 28 19:02:27 UTC 2007


Brian Fahrlander wrote the following on 28.07.2007 18:34
>     The other day I was blessed: my home server (fahrlander.net) was 
> given a new version of Logwatch that is SPECTACULAR at dealing with the 
> mail/spam details.  It's a real nice  upgrade to logwatch, version 7.3 
> with "Feisty" in it's name- I'm pretty sure it was a backport.
> 
>     So I go to my other clients running Dapper and expect it to be 
> there: nope.
> 
>     I forced an update and an upgrade: nope.

Start to investigate what´s going on with:

$ apt-cache policy logwatch

That will tell you which version is available, and from where.

>     Then I went so far as to scp my sources.list from my server to the 
> client, did the update/upgrade: nope.
> 
>     Tell me how this is possible?  Both Dapper servers are using the 
> same repo list...


bye
-- 
Thilo

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