On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 12:44:43PM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all > > I'm doing a simple basic apt-get update and it produces no available > file. This used to work ok but for some reason no new available file is > created anymore. I got rid of the old one with dpkg --clear-avail but it > did not help. The system is potato on intel hw. Some error message should > appear?! Some different sources.list entries were tried with same > results. > > charlotte:/var/lib/dpkg# apt-get update > Hit http://ftp.fi.debian.org stable/main Packages > Hit http://ftp.fi.debian.org stable/main Release > Hit http://ftp.fi.debian.org stable/contrib Packages > Hit http://ftp.fi.debian.org stable/contrib Release > Hit http://ftp.fi.debian.org stable/non-free Packages > Hit http://ftp.fi.debian.org stable/non-free Release > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > charlotte:/var/lib/dpkg# ll available > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 29 15:08 available
It looks to me like apt-get update hasn't found anything new, and thus has no reason to update the available file. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
