apt discrepancy?

[Jared Norris]

On 9 June 2011 10:32, Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, June 08, 2011 04:27:30 PM Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> > On 6/8/2011 6:17 PM, Dave Stevens wrote:
> > > doesn't that last one upgrade the distro? I'm running 10.04
> intentionally
> > > for a server and don't want to change versions, just to keep updates
> > > happening for the package that are already installed.
> >
> > By default no, unless you tell it to.  By default it will only do point
> > releases, the only way it would attempt to upgrade to another release,
> > say 10.10 is if you change your sources.list and now days there is a
> > much cleaner way of doing that.  Dist-Upgrade is more intelligent then
> > upgrade too.
> >
> > dist-upgrade
> >     dist-upgrade, in addition to performing the function of upgrade,
> > also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions of
> > packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and it will
> > attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the expense of less
> > important ones if necessary. The /etc/apt/sources.list file contains a
> > list of locations from which to retrieve desired package files. See also
> > apt_preferences(5) for a mechanism for overriding the general settings
> > for individual packages.
>
> Thanks very much, I've done as you suggested and although the message is
> still
> out of whack the updates have been done.
>
> Dave
>
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Just for laughs I logged into my server here at home (Ubuntu 10.04.2) via
ssh and was greeted with something very similar. Mine is showing 52 packages
can be updated and that 25 updates are security updates.

And to confirm I did all the instructions in this thread and this does not
rectify it either, my system is up to date everywhere except the MOTD. Is
this perhaps a bug in how this information is gathered or perhaps what is
triggering a refresh of this information as it appears to be static over
time instead of dynamic. Sorry I ran out of time to track this down properly
but just wanted to confirm that this isn't isolated to your machine only.


Regards,

Jared Norris
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris
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