Re: dselect, can't do update
Bruce Sass <bsass@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> 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 notices that you don't
> have the same as what is in the remote archive and fetches the files
> again -- first downloading them into /var/lib/apt/lists/partial.
Actually, I fixed the problem yesterday for myself by editing
/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages
and apt did not download a new one on the next dselect update. I think
maybe it compares timestamps and does not download a new packages file
if the local one is newer.
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