On 22 Jan 2004, Philipp Weis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 22 Jan 2004, Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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).
I justs checked the BTS and this has been reported as #143732 almost two years ago. Apparently nobody seems to care enough to fix it. -- Philipp Weis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freiburg, Germany http://pweis.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
