have to update on a regular basis...why?

[Thufir]

On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 09:55:57 +0000, Colin Law wrote:


> but having thought about it some more, if the version has been updated,
> then running install without running update would try to install the old
> version of the package, which might well no longer be in the repo, so
> this may well explain Thufir's problem.  I guess that it is saying not
> that it cannot find the package (as in my example above) but that it
> cannot find a particular version of the package - namely the old one.
> 
> @Thufir - is that what you see?  Cannot find a particular version of the
> package?



I don't recall at the moment.  I went to install wget and, pardon, I 
don't recall the error.  I just noticed the pattern.  That could very 
well be the problem, makes sense.

I also noticed that I installed activemq fine, then purged it, then when 
went to re-install, was presented with an error which may have been about 
the version; update fixed it.

It's not a huge deal, more of a curiosity.  Probably if I had all my 
updates turned on it would fix itself.



thanks,

Thufir