On 2015-12-06 at 11:46, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm>, 2015-12-06, 08:50: > >> Er... the entire reason I started running 'apt-file update' in the >> first place is because running 'apt-get update' was not, or did >> not appear to be, updating the index which was used by apt-file. > > Quick sanity check: do you have apt-file (>= 3) installed? Because > this is the package that ships the configuration file for APT that > causes apt(-get) to download Contents-*.
$ apt-cache policy apt-file
apt-file:
Installed: 2.5.4
Candidate: 2.5.4
Version table:
*** 2.5.4 0
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
So my inference at this point is that in testing and stable, 'apt-get
update' (and presumably 'apt update') does not update the apt-file
index, but in experimental and possibly sid it does.
IOW, this is not only new since I noticed the above, but new since
_now_.
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The Wanderer
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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