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Re: apt 0.6 in experimental



On Wednesday 31 December 2003 12:09, Anthony Towns wrote:
> ] Origin: Nathaniel W. Turner
> ] Label: Unofficial Snapshot Packages
>
> I'd expect the spaces there to cause problems. If they don't, I'm out of
> ideas too.

Nope, it's something much more subtle I guess.  I even tried changing my 
Release file to look like an official Debian one, [1] but that had no effect 
on the strange error message I get; it is still saying, "Failed to fetch 
http://debian.houseofnate.net/dists/unstable/Release  Unable to find expected 
entry  nwt/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release 
file?)".  (This is with apt 0.6.10.)

Just in case someone can glean some hints from it, I have included the output 
[2] from running "apt-get -o Debug::pkgAcquire::Auth=yes update" with a 
minimal sources.list containing my troublesome repository. [3]

Anyway, happy new year, folks.  =)
nate

-- 
Nathaniel W. Turner
http://www.houseofnate.net/
Tel: +1 508 579 1948 (mobile)

[1]  I was using "deb http://debian.houseofnate.net/ unstable nwt" and the 
Release file looked like this:

Origin: Debian
Label: Debian
Suite: unstable
Codename: sid
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 02:51:49 UTC
Architectures: i386
Components: cdp nwt
Description: Debian Unstable - Not Released
MD5Sum:
 ...

[2] nturner@frink(apt-0.6.10)$ apt-get -o Debug::pkgAcquire::Auth=yes update
Get:1 http://debian.houseofnate.net unstable Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://debian.houseofnate.net unstable Release [3691B]
32% [2 Release 1058/3691B 28%] [Connecting to http.us.debian.org 
(204.152.189.120)]Metaindex acquired, queueing gpg verification
99% [2 Release gpgv 3691] [Connecting to http.us.debian.org 
(204.152.189.120)]Got Codename: sid
Expecting Dist: unstable
Transformed Dist: unstable
Signature verification succeeded: /var/lib/apt/lists/
debian.houseofnate.net_dists_unstable_Release
Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org unstable Release.gpg [197B]
Get:4 http://http.us.debian.org unstable Release [34.1kB]
66% [4 Release 21421/34.1kB 62%]Metaindex acquired, queueing gpg verification
99% [4 Release gpgv 34068]Got Codename: sid
Expecting Dist: unstable
Transformed Dist: unstable
Signature verification succeeded: /var/lib/apt/lists/
http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_Release
Queueing: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/
Packages
Expected MD5: a0d42ee0bb229837e6ceec0d7cb7eea2
Queueing: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/non-free/
binary-i386/Packages
Expected MD5: 23a66d5e3e98c52bdd8e6165ded66cba
Queueing: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/contrib/binary-i386/
Packages
Expected MD5: dad9fb2e700390bb363a13f585b1cb33
Hit http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
Hit http://http.us.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages
Hit http://http.us.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages
Fetched 38.1kB in 1s (25.3kB/s)
Failed to fetch http://debian.houseofnate.net/dists/unstable/Release  Unable 
to find expected entry  nwt/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file 
(malformed Release file?)
Reading Package Lists... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://debian.houseofnate.net unstable/
nwt Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/
debian.houseofnate.net_dists_unstable_nwt_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No 
such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones 
used instead.

[3]  /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://debian.houseofnate.net/ unstable nwt
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib




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