Source: apt Severity: important Version: 1.1~exp9 In a fresh sid chroot:
$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://mirror.dc15.debconf.org/debian sid main deb-src http://mirror.dc15.debconf.org/debian sid main $ echo deb http://mirror.dc15.debconf.org/debian experimental main | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://mirror.dc15.debconf.org/debian experimental main $ sudo apt-get update Get:1 http://mirror.dc15.debconf.org sid InRelease [215 kB] Get:2 http://mirror.dc15.debconf.org experimental InRelease [161 kB] Get:3 http://mirror.dc15.debconf.org sid/main Sources [10.4 MB] Get:4 http://mirror.dc15.debconf.org sid/main amd64 Packages [10.1 MB] Get:5 http://mirror.dc15.debconf.org experimental/main amd64 Packages [1157 kB] Fetched 22.0 MB in 4s (4550 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done W: Size of file /var/lib/apt/lists/mirror.dc15.debconf.org_debian_dists_sid_main_source_Sources.gz is not what the server reported 10394726 10402082 W: Size of file /var/lib/apt/lists/mirror.dc15.debconf.org_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-amd64_Packages.gz is not what the server reported 10057069 10057260 $ sudo apt-get install -t experimental apt [..] Setting up libapt-pkg5.0:amd64 (1.1~exp9) ... Setting up apt (1.1~exp9) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove ... Installing new version of config file /etc/cron.daily/apt ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-19) ... $ sudo apt-get update Hit:1 http://mirror.dc15.debconf.org/debian sid InRelease Hit:2 http://mirror.dc15.debconf.org/debian experimental InRelease Reading package lists... Error! E: Unable to create caches as file usage is disabled, but memory not allowed either! E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. $ echo $? 100 ASame with apt-get install, etc. - ie. my installation is somewhat hosed. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-
