On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 08:05:04PM -0800, lenny bruce wrote: > I've found a lot of support regarding a sources.list problem > that apparently is fairly common but isn't the problem I have... > > > I picked some bad sources and entered the deb lines incorrectly > before I figured out the correct way to do these things... > but apt and dselect won't forget every mistake I've ever made. > > now I have good sources in my sources.list file that all work great > but apt and dselect continue to look up every bad entry I ever made > along with my good sources... > > this takes totally forever for the bad ones to time out > even though the good ones update very quickly > > how can it be remembering all my previous bad entries > when I removed them from sources.list? > > how come updating sources.list doesn't just use my new sources? > > I've spent hours trying to get apt and dselect to forget my old entries > despite the fact that I long ago removed them from sources.list... > but I'm totally confused on how to get this accomplished. > > apt-get update doesn't solve the problem.
Are you absolutely sure about this? After removing the broken lines from your sources.list, this command should make apt forget about all unlisted sources...have you als run 'dselect update'? If all else fails, you could try removing the broken Packages files from /var/libapt/lists/ (I'm sure you can figure out which file is which). This is quite bizarre though; I can't imagine how apt could hold onto this... -rob
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