apt-get upgrade problem

[Vram]

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 14:17 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Vram wrote:
> 
> >> > I tried dist-upgrade and it just says...   HELD back...
> >> > 
> >> > See my older post..
> >> 
> >> D**n!  You did say that, didn't you :-)
> >> 
> >> What repo is your sources.list currently pointing to?  You've not made it
> >> clear.
> >> 
> >> When did you last do apt-get update?
> > 
> > 
> > /etc/apt/sources.list   follows..
> > 
> > deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary  main restricted
> > deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary  main restricted
> 
> You'd be wise to point those at a closer mirror (xx.archive.ubuntu.com,
> where xx is a country code).
> 

OK Did that!!!

> >  deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary universe
> >  deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary universe
> > 
> > deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted
> > deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted
> 
> You don't have hoary-updates.  Duplicate hoary-security for hoary-updates.


OK...  What do they look like??


> > 
> > #Debian security updates
> > deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security sarge/updates main contrib
> > non-free
> > deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main
> > contrib non-free
> 

Took this out..



> And those could be a real problem.  Hoary was based on sarge, originally,
> but the sarge that was released as Debian stable just a few weeks ago           
> is much closer to Breezy than Hoary.  Never include debian repos without
> _very_ careful use of pinning.  There are very few packages that you can
> get from Debian that you can't get from a source that packages it
> especially for Ubuntu - on my system, only Mambo (still experimental on
> Debian) and Tomcat (I think - I haven't had an update in so long that I
> suppose I could be getting it off Ubuntu, now)
> > 
> > 
> > And I update and upgrade .. At least every 2nd or 3rd day
> 
> Remove the Debian repo, add hoary-updates, do an update, try dist-upgrade. 
> Then if you really need Debian, add it back _only_ to update those specific
> packages.
> -- 
> derek
> 
>