Re: aptitude not seeing updates in repository

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On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 12:48:27PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> One of my sources is:
>
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
>
> but despite repeated "sudo aptitude update" commands, I was still seeing
> old files (as in more than three weeks old) when running
> "apt-show-version -a <foo>" on a package.
>
> I added a kernel.org mirror, and things are back to normal, but I'd like
> to know how I should handle this in the future. Is there a way to force
> a full update, or to figure out why I'm not getting the most current
> list of repository files?
>

Install the apt-spy package and use it to find the fastest server for you; ftp.debian.org is no longer being updated.

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