Daniel Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >since yesterday i've a strange problem with dselect. i tried to look >for new packages at the mirror ( i use sid ), and did a update in >dselect, everything seemed to work, but at the end of operation the >following errormessage came. > >|Reading Package Lists... Done >|Building Dependency Tree... Done >|Merging Available information >|Replacing available packages info, using /var/cache/apt/available. >|dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/cache/apt/available' near line 1020 >package `blt': >| `Replaces' field, reference to `blt-dev': error in version: version >string has embedded spaces >| >|update available list script returned error exit status 2. >|Press <enter> to continue.
dpkg changed somewhat in version 1.9.8. I've been told that replacing /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/update with the contents of http://people.debian.org/~bod/update helps with this. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
