I'm also seeing this behavior here. it was not a problem until the upgrade to 0.6.44
i can verify that the 0-byte Sources files are indeed present in older versions of apt. sarge's apt (0.5.28.6) creates them when pulling from a repository section with no packages in it. Thanks for looking into this! --dkg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]