Re: Apt Question

Agreed. The people who put the packages together for the various distros
often have additional patches or dependency stuff they include and have
additional tracking info they append to the basic release ID. Have a
look at your kernel ID, unless you're using a vanilla kernel from
kernel.org. The one on my NLD laptop is 2.6.5-637, or something like
that. the 2.6.5 is the only official kernel number, the 637 is added by
SuSE and has changed at least 3 times as they've added security upgrades
all to the basic 2.6.5 kernel.
Royce Williams wrote:

>Matthew Dunaway wrote, on 12/21/2005 11:21 AM:
>
>
>>I then tried apt-get upgrade. It gave me a list of about 400 packages to
>>be upgraded.
>>Out of curiosity I checked to see what version of xmms I had. I have
>>version 1.2.10.
>>I then went to the xmms website and the latest version is 1.2.10, the
>>same as what I have now.
>>Why would apt want to upgrade xmms when I already have the latest
>>version??? Do you think the other 400+
>>packages on my computer are the latest versions and there are no
>>upgrades available?
>>
>>
>
>There are sometimes minor variations in packages as they are prepared
>by the package maintainers. These changes usually have revision
>suffixes beyond those of the app itself (like 1.2.10_1, in this case).
>
>-royce
>
>
>

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