Hi,
Since April 18, Kali has been showing that all packages are up-to-date when doing an update as outlined here:
I checked /etc/apt/sources.list to ensure it matches.
It seems old that this is happening since there’s generally regular updates to the distro.
Anyone else seeing this behavior?
You are concerned there have been no updates in 6 days? And 2 of those days were bank holidays in the western world?
No, it doesn’t seem odd to me.
Thank you for the reply, @denartha. You do make a great point about the Easter holiday.
Yes, I’m concerned about the lack of updates, not because I’m not receiving something new but because the Kali distro is updated on such a consistent basis that a 6 day lull leads me to believe that my install may have an issue.
If you visit the URL in your repos list you will see on the web when each repo was last updated. That timestamp is external to your system, ergo, not a problem on your end.
That’s a huge help. Thanks for taking the time to help out here. Much appreciated. 
Hello men. Yeah so im reading in Kali documentation and I see that Kali snapshot is discouraged to Kali rolling. I would of thought that Kali snapshot would be more stable. Maybe I’m reading that wrong. I’m using Kali rolling and have absolutely no complaints. Its just a lot of learning. But as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
You are correct in a way, a snapshot could be considered more stable, however, in the Info Sec space, change happens rapidly, and tools are updated to take in to account these changes, or just to fix bugs, a rolling release also means if you update regularly, you never need to do a fresh full install.
With a ‘stable’ snapshot type release, there are only a few fixed images often 6 monthly or so, so when a new version is released, there can be, and often are, ‘breaking changes’, that mean you can’t simply update an install, and often have to start from scratch again.
Stable is often valued in the context of servers or where you have many users on a system, where you want it to always behave the same way, easier to admin (think businesses, schools etc)
Yeah man thanks, that’s good stuff to know. I’m also running current kernel, 6.20.20-amd64 and its running great. No complaints. Highly satisfied.
So, I clicked the repository link and it tells me its latest date is 17 April, it is now 28 April. Last time I noticed this happening was during some big hack-a-thon and no up[dates for that week. I’m used to daily updates on each weekday. Is there a big event happening?
So it looks like there was in fact an issue and the signing key had to be renewed by the Kali team.
