apt-get upgrade, doesn't
 

Hi all -

I have a Sid install on one of my laptops that was set up over a year ago. I usually run Ubuntu and Mandrake on this one but decided to update the Debian install.

Apt-get update went as expected:

r2d2:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://debian.actusa.net sid/main Packages [4144kB]
Get:2 http://debian.actusa.net sid/main Release [82B]
Get:3 http://debian.actusa.net sid/non-free Packages [77.7kB]
Get:4 http://debian.actusa.net sid/non-free Release [86B]
Get:5 http://debian.actusa.net sid/contrib Packages [59.0kB]
Get:6 http://debian.actusa.net sid/contrib Release [85B]
Get:7 http://debian.actusa.net sid/main Sources [1599kB]
Get:8 http://debian.actusa.net sid/main Release [84B]
Get:9 http://debian.actusa.net sid/non-free Sources [31.6kB]
Get:10 http://debian.actusa.net sid/non-free Release [88B]
Get:11 http://debian.actusa.net sid/contrib Sources [25.2kB]
Get:12 http://debian.actusa.net sid/contrib Release [87B]
Fetched 5937kB in 53s (112kB/s)
Reading Package Lists... Done

Even though it's not been upgraded for a long time (for example, this version of Firefox is 1.0!!), I can't get it to upgrade anything:

r2d2:~# apt-get clean

r2d2:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

r2d2:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

r2d2:~# apt-get dist-upgrade -u
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
r2d2:~#

The repository I'm using is good; I have three other Debian boxes which upgrade from it regularly, and it's up-to-date. I know the guy who runs it, and he's very good about keeping everything in good shape.

Any ideas would be appreciated. I've Googled this and haven't found a good answer (through the first 30 hits, anyway).

Thanks....Bob

I think it should be

deb http://debian.actusa.net/debian/ sid main contrib nonfree

it looks like you have

deb http://debian.actusa.net/ sid main contrib non-free

I just tried that repo and firefox is at 1.5+

Yes you can browse to the repo but it looks like you have it set-up incorrectly. For example my Sid sources:

#Unstable/Sid
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
# Unstable Sources
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free