Re: new debian sources and servers???

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

"Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de> writes:

> This behaviour only appears, when using aptitude. Using the older apt-get, all 
> servers are found. The only thing, I had to change, was APT::Cache-limit in 
> /etc/apt/apt.conf, but that reason is clear.
>
> Is there a difference of using the sources.list in aptitude, apt-get and 
> synaptic? I could not find out, if they use different sources.lists, or if 
> they use the same in different ways. Documentation made this not clear.
>
> It looks to me, that the handling of debian packages are changed in the 
> future.
>
> Hans

You have installed ia32-apt-get and its support is not yet 100%. It
breaks aptitude update so you have to use apt-get update for now.

See also /usr/share/doc/ia32-apt-get/NEWS.Debian.gz.

MfG
        Goswin

PS: unstable is as unstable says.