Johan Ur Riise wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 09:35:03PM -0400, Kristopher Johnson wrote:
> > David Natkins wrote:
> > >
> > > Seems to be a problem with the package list for unstable at
> > > ftp.debian.org.
> > > One of the packages (aleph-dev) is causing the problem.
> >
> > You can open the package list file with a text editor and fix the
> > problems. The other aleph-* packages have the same problem: the
> > priority line says "optionnal", rather than "optional". Just
> > delete the extra 'n', and everything will be fine.
>
> I have the same problem. After editing
> /var/state/apt/lists/www.uk.debian.org_debian_dists_potato_main_binary-i386_Packages
> ( two occurrences of optionnal changed to optional) and rerunning
> apt-get update, the file is downloaded again and I am where I started.
>
> Johan.
The file you modify is now out of sync with the other ones. After
making the changes in the file, use touch to set its time to the same as
the others (the 2 other potato files for contrib and nonfree). This
will prevent it from trying to reload the Packages file.
--
Ed C.
