Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
OK, I'll buy that. Unfortunately, I still get an "Unable to correct for unavailable packages." message in aptitude when I run a `g' after `U' and the upgrade fails. I'll look forward to 0.4.2. I'll probably have to install the .deb with dpkg ;-). -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
