Re: dselect, can't do update
On 6 Jun 2001, Dave Carrigan wrote:
> Bruce Sass <bsass@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> 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
> > 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.
That's odd... not that it didn't re-fetch the packages files,
but that it didn't for you and did for me.
- Bruce
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