apt get vs synaptic pacage monitor

[NoOp]

On 05/31/2009 06:23 PM, Rashkae wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>> Just be aware that I've run across an issue with the jaunty
>> "update-manager" that seems to be more of "update-sometimes-manager"
>> whereby I:
>> 
>> $ sudo apt-get update
>> 
>>   No updates showup (yet I know they are there)
>> 
>> So then I try the gui "update-manager" and click check
>> 
>>   No updates showup (yet I know they are there)
>> 
>> So then I go to Synaptic and double check; no updates listed. But then I
>> click the 'Reload' button which supposedly does the same as 'sudo
>> apt-get update' and what do you know: 33 updates show up. Did this on
>> two machines today, both with the exact same results. No clue/time to
>> figure out the issue (yet), but in these cases Synaptic won out.
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> That's a very interesting observation, and should be impossible.  How
> often do you check for updates?  I'm wondering generic repo address was
> directing you to a mirror that wasn't finished updating yet?
> 

I check daily. I would have thought that it might have been a repo
mirror issue as well, however I first did it on this machine then
checked (repeated the process) on another machine with the exact same
sources.list & mirror settings two hours later - same results.

Just fired up another jaunty machine that hasn't been updated in at
least 10 days and got the same results.

Granted the updates were non-security updates (OpenOffice.org PPA's and
the VirtualBox repo), but I would have thought that the standard 'sudo
apt-get update' and then trying with the standard update-manager would
have brought them up. It was only after I used 'Refresh' in Synaptic
that the updates finally appeared.