Re: apt-get update problem

[David Roundy <droundy@civet.berkeley.edu>]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 12:44:43PM -0000, pekka@rinne.as wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I'm doing a simple basic apt-get update and it produces no available
> file. This used to work ok but for some reason no new available file is
> created anymore.  I got rid of the old one with dpkg --clear-avail but it
> did not help. The system is potato on intel hw. Some error message should
> appear?! Some different sources.list entries were tried with same
> results.
> 
> charlotte:/var/lib/dpkg# apt-get update
> Hit http://ftp.fi.debian.org stable/main Packages
> Hit http://ftp.fi.debian.org stable/main Release
> Hit http://ftp.fi.debian.org stable/contrib Packages
> Hit http://ftp.fi.debian.org stable/contrib Release
> Hit http://ftp.fi.debian.org stable/non-free Packages
> Hit http://ftp.fi.debian.org stable/non-free Release
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> charlotte:/var/lib/dpkg# ll available
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Aug 29 15:08 available

It looks to me like apt-get update hasn't found anything new, and thus has
no reason to update the available file.
-- 
David Roundy
http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/