On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 17:13:06 -0400 Fungi4All <fungil...@protonmail.com> wrote:
> From: nemomm...@gmail.com > > > On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 14:32:04 -0400 Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> > > wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 10:29:02AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> > Getting no results from apt-get upgrade after a week. Can install > >> > apps, etc., but get no security or stretch-update "fixes," etc. I > >> > find this unusual. Did a mail list archive search for this, but > >> > didn"t find anything specific. Or did I miss the solution? > >> > >> Did you do an apt-get update before your upgrade? > > Yes. I"ve been using Debian since Sarge. So, this isn"t my first > > rodeo. But this is the first time I"ve ever had this occur. I"m > > beginning to think this might be an installer "problem" (I did a > > terminal only mnimal install to begin with) even though sources.list > > and configs look okay. I"m going to do a "default" install with the > > LXDE desktop and see if I have the same problem. > > Since you insist without any evidence that apt-get does a better > job, can you spare us the courtesy of telling us what mirror are > you using? It is a possible explanation, since you "verified" that > auto-upgrade is not installed (or was uninstalled after your > installation maybe). And mirrors have failed in the past. Where did I say apt-get was better? I just use it instead of apt or aptitude or synaptic. Tried them all. One not better than the other. I just prefer it. Right now, I'm using the ftp.us.debian.org mirror with main contrib and non-free enabled. No third party repos at this time. Have tried a couple of others -- utexas and georgia tech -- but experienced errors at times due to missing packages or site being down or unavailable. I didn't uninistall auto-upgrade. With the basic terminal only system I build off of, it never gets installed in the first place. Apparently, such "auto" stuff is now a product of a desktop environment (or systemd? ). Something I abandoned 5 years ago in favor of a window manager and a single panel. B