On 22 Jan 2004, Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running woody, but need to install a backport of postfix. So I > added to /etc/aptsources.list the line:
You probably mean /etc/apt/sources.list. > deb http://people.debian.org/~hmh/woody/ hmh/postfix/ [...] > When I run & sudo aptitude update I get the error message: > > Reading Package Lists... 0% > ... > Reading extended state information... Done > > W: Couldn't stat source package list > http://people.debian.org hmh/postfix/ Packages > (/var/lib/apt/lists/people.debian.org_%7ehmh_woody_hmh_postfix_Packages) > - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: You may want to update the package lists to correct these missing files > > I don't understand this. Is it saying that the address I put in > sources.list is invalid? Does aptitude update require some kind of > switch if the repositories are mixed (stable and testing)? What is thi > file /var/lib/apt/lists/people.debian.org...? It does not exist on my > machine. Does it need to create this as a directory and is failing to > do so? This seems to be a bug with aptitude, as "apt-get update" works on my machine and "aptitude update" should do exactly the same thing. If "apt-get update" solves the problem for you, you should probably file a bug report against aptitude (after checking this has not been reported already). -- Philipp Weis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freiburg, Germany http://pweis.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
