Weird apt-get problem

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Wed Jun 30 13:34:33 UTC 2004


Frank Pineau said:
> Anyone else seeing this?  Up2date reports a new package (in this case,
> strace-4.5.5), but apt-get does not.  The repositories that apt-get is 
> looking at all have the new package, but apt-get insists strace-4.5.4 is 
> the latest available.  Obviously, this is not the only package, but 
> apt-get does occasionally show new packages.

The strace RPM is dated 28-Jun-2004, but the metadata (where apt looks to determine new packages) is dated 24-Jun-2004.

-- 
William Hooper





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