I thought that Testing was frozen, but for days I have been getting loads of updates for my Etch install. See below for todays.
Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Last login: Thu Jan 4 22:48:56 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su Password: debian:/home/djmons# apt-get update Get:1 http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release.gpg [189B] Get:2 http://deb.opera.com testing Release.gpg [189B] Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release Hit http://deb.opera.com testing Release Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org testing Release.gpg [378B] Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch/main Packages/DiffIndex Ign http://deb.opera.com testing/non-free Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing Release Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch/main Packages Ign http://deb.opera.com testing/non-free Packages Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://deb.opera.com testing/non-free Packages Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/non-free Packages/DiffIndex Fetched 3B in 4s (1B/s) Reading package lists... Done debian:/home/djmons# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: iputils-ping The following packages will be upgraded: adduser gedit gedit-common gnome-media gnome-media-common gnome-menus gnome-panel gnome-panel-data hpijs initrd-tools iputils-arping kappfinder kate kcontrol kdebase kdebase-bin kdebase-data kdebase-doc kdebase-kio-plugins kdepasswd kdeprint kdesktop kdm kfind khelpcenter kicker klipper kmenuedit konqueror konqueror-nsplugins konsole kpager kpersonalizer ksmserver ksplash ksysguard ksysguardd ktip kwin libeel2-2 libeel2-data libglade2-0 libglu1-xorg libgnome-media0 libgnome-menu2 libkonq4 libldap2 libnautilus-burn3 libpanel-applet2-0 libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpango1.0-dev libqt3-compat-headers libqt3-headers libqt3-mt libqt3-mt-dev libsnmp-base libsnmp9 netkit-ping python-gmenu qt3-dev-tools snmp x-window-system x-window-system-core x11-common xlibmesa-dri xlibmesa-gl xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibs-data xlibs-static-dev xnest xorg xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-video-all xterm 77 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 59.6MB of archives. After unpacking 5773kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? What I do not understand also is the "Diffindex" stuff added to the packages lines. I'm ssh'd into Etch from FC2, and there are also many numbered lines ending in .pdiff on the machine running Etch, which do not display on the machine running FC2. I've just changed /etc/apt/sources.list entries from testing to Etch, and run apt-get update again, followed by apt-get dist-upgrade. I now have the same amount of packages to download, so it appears there are still a lot of updates for Etch even though testing is frozen. What the hell though are these "Diffindex" things, and all the lines while running apt-get update that end in "pdiff". I havn't seen them in Sarge, and don't recall having seen them in Etch before a couple of weeks ago. Etch is running ok. Slow to bootup for some reason (took 8mins the other day), but is otherwise working ok. Nigel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]