Package: apt Version: 0.8.14 This change:
,---- | apt (0.8.14) unstable; urgency=low | | [ Julian Andres Klode ] | * apt-pkg/acquire-item.cc: | - Use Release files even if they cannot be verified (LP: #704595) `---- has the side effect that "apt-get update" now fails for repositories that do not have a Release file at all, such as flat directories scanned with dpkg-scanpackages: ,---- | % LANG=C sudo apt-get update | Ign file: debs/ InRelease | Ign file: debs/ Release.gpg | Err file: debs/ Release | rename failed, No such file or directory (/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/_usr_local_var_apt_debs_Release -> /var/lib/apt/lists/_usr_local_var_apt_debs_Release). | Ign file: debs/ Translation-en | Ign file: debs/ Translation-de | Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable InRelease | Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental InRelease | Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Sources/DiffIndex | Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/contrib Sources/DiffIndex | Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/non-free Sources/DiffIndex | Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main i386 Packages/DiffIndex | Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/contrib i386 Packages/DiffIndex | Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/non-free i386 Packages/DiffIndex | Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/contrib TranslationIndex | Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main TranslationIndex | Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/non-free TranslationIndex | Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental/main Sources/DiffIndex | Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental/main i386 Packages/DiffIndex | Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental/main TranslationIndex | Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Translation-de | Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/contrib Translation-en | Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/contrib Translation-de | Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/non-free Translation-en | Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/non-free Translation-de | Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental/main Translation-en | Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental/main Translation-de | W: Failed to fetch file:/usr/local/var/apt/debs/Release rename failed, No such file or directory (/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/_usr_local_var_apt_debs_Release -> /var/lib/apt/lists/_usr_local_var_apt_debs_Release). | | E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. `---- I have now changed my script to run "apt-ftparchive release" to work around the problem, but I think this was not intentional. -- Package-specific info: -- /etc/apt/preferences -- Package: * Pin: release a=experimental Pin-Priority: 101 -- /etc/apt/sources.list -- deb file:/usr/local/var/apt debs/ deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ experimental main deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ experimental main # deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-rc3-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a ii gnupg 1.4.11-3 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.6.0-2 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.6.0-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime apt recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt suggests: ii apt-doc 0.8.14 Documentation for APT ii aptitude 0.6.3-4 terminal-based package manager (te ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii dpkg-dev 1.16.0.1 Debian package development tools ii python-apt 0.7.100.3 Python interface to libapt-pkg ii xz-lzma [lzma] 5.0.0-2 XZ-format compression utilities - -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org