On Saturday 01 February 2003 1:18 pm, Kent West wrote: > >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. >
Try hasing ou all your sources, yep even the good ones, in /etc/apt/sources.list, then apt-get update Then un-hash all your sources, and apt-get update Will force system to re-load its sources database worked for me !! Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
