On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 03:40:35PM -0700, Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > aptitude is failing to retrieve package files. Or thinks it is failing. > > For the purposes of this report, I simplified my sources.list to: > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free > > removed all the cached package files in /var/lib/apt/lists, and ran > aptitude update. This bombed: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:812]$ sudo aptitude update > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Reading extended state information > Initializing package states... Done > Reading task descriptions... Done > Building tag database... Done > Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org etch Release.gpg [189B] > Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org etch Release [62.9kB] > Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org etch/main Packages [4085kB] > Get:4 http://http.us.debian.org etch/contrib Packages [52.1kB] > Get:5 http://http.us.debian.org etch/non-free Packages [73.8kB]
Looks to me like it worked just fine. The warnings below are spurious but ought to go away in aptitude 0.4.2 since it doesn't try to read in the package lists before an update. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]