no "upgrade available" notification

[Clay Weber]

On Monday 27 April 2009 9:03:58 am Derek Broughton wrote:
> D. R. Evans wrote:
> > Derek Broughton said the following at 04/26/2009 09:27 AM :
> >> I installed Intrepid, fresh, two weeks ago, and it never ran the
> >> update-notifier until I started it up after Jaunty was released.  So
> >> "how" is simple - it isn't turned on by default.
> >
> > I've certainly been receiving update notifications for several months.
> > Indeed, I received a whole bunch the very day that jaunty was released.
> >
> >>> (2) how do I fix it?] But I repeat  that we have not passed the
> >>> threshold
> >>
> >> issue yet.]
> >>
> >> You follow Clay's advice.
> >
> > Argh! Can I cry?
>
> Not yet...
>
> > I... have... done... that.... It does *not* fix it.
> >
> > I'm sorry; it just doesn't.
>
> Fine, but you were complaining about Clay's advice while you hadn't
> actually told us _to that point_ that the update-notifier was running.
>
> >> Once you have the update-notifier running, you may perhaps need to
> >> choose the "Fetch lists" option to update the available changes (I have
> >> no idea if that's required - I had just run "aptitude update" when I
> >> first started the notifier.
> >
> > I have fetched the repository lists so many times I have lost count. The
> > only good thing is that the system is completely consistent: it always
> > says that there are no files to upgrade.
>
> _Then_ you have a problem :-(  What
> does 'grep -v "^#" /etc/apt/sources.list' show?
> --
> derek

I think that update-notifier gets some info from /etc/lsb-release, not from 
which repos are enabled. Then the upgrader disables third party repos, and 
then after that adds/modifies the sources.list. Somewhere somehow Doc's update-
notifier is determined that there are no upgrades.

It is possible to just edit the sources.list, but that also bypasses the 
upgrade tool, which helps resolve any known issues and conflicts. I so far 
cannot duplicate his problem.
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