dselect, can't do update

2001-06-07 Thread Daniel Wagner
hello, 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..

Re: dselect, can't do update

2001-06-07 Thread Bruce Sass
On 6 Jun 2001, Daniel Wagner 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 Li

Re: dselect, can't do update

2001-06-07 Thread Colin Watson
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 Li

Re: dselect, can't do update

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Carrigan
Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you try to edit /var/cache/apt/available and rerun `update' your > fixes get over written when the available file is built. > > If you edit the files in /var/lib/apt/lists to fix the problem (in the > entries for the blt and blt-demo packages), apt noti

Re: dselect, can't do update

2001-06-07 Thread Bruce Sass
On 6 Jun 2001, Dave Carrigan wrote: > Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If you edit the files in /var/lib/apt/lists to fix the problem (in the > > entries for the blt and blt-demo packages), apt notices that you don't > > have the same as what is in the remote archive and fetches the files

Re: dselect, can't do update

2001-06-07 Thread Raja R Harinath
Dave Carrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If you try to edit /var/cache/apt/available and rerun `update' your >> fixes get over written when the available file is built. >> >> If you edit the files in /var/lib/apt/lists to fix the problem (in the >> entr