Re: dselect can't update

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 03:10:21PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote:
> On update, I'm getting the following error:
> 
>     Get:1 http://mirrors.kernel.org sarge/main Packages [2257kB]
>     Get:2 http://mirrors.kernel.org sarge/main Release [81B]
>     Get:3 http://mirrors.kernel.org sarge/contrib Packages [63.8kB]
>     Get:4 http://mirrors.kernel.org sarge/contrib Release [84B]
>     Get:5 http://mirrors.kernel.org sarge/non-free Packages [63.1kB]
>     Get:6 http://mirrors.kernel.org sarge/non-free Release [85B]
>     Fetched 2384kB in 15s (150kB/s)
>     Reading Package Lists... Done
>     Merging Available information
>     E: Internal Error, Unable to parse a package record

apt 0.5.5 is screwed. See its bug list ...

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]