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On 24/03/14 23:31, bad apple wrote:
Indeed it is, and I have your handy upgrade notes which which to do it.. just changing the source from Petra to whatever they call the next one.. Queenie? If they keep up with the girl's names :)On 24/03/14 23:10, Julian Hall wrote:Hi All, Quick question. Using the Update Manager in Mint 16, if I click for details while it's downloading files prior to update I notice that there are quite a few that say 0B for length. As nothing seems to get broken I've assumed it's normal but I wondered /why/ it's happening. Kind regards, JulianWow, you actually use a graphical updater tool? I always do updates in a terminal regardless of OS flavour, you'll miss diagnostic information otherwise. If something serious fails then the Fedora/Debian/Mint/SuSE/etc GUI updaters will only show you the briefest summary of the most major error(s) whereas in a shell you'll get the full bloody details... sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade I'd put it in your .bashrc as an alias to save calling it from history or CTRL+R reverse searching for it every time. To answer your question, that's apt grabbing the list of updates in a bunch of release files containing hashes, file versions, etc and the size field indicates the amount of each downloaded to your machine. Frequently things like the translations don't change very often, and apt is smart enough to not bother downloading them: hence the 0B returned. It'll already be time to upgrade to Mint 17 in a month or two. Cheers
Cheers, Julian -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq