Re: not quite the regular sources.list problem
On Saturday 01 February 2003 1:18 pm, Kent West wrote:
> >On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 08:05:04PM -0800, lenny bruce wrote:
> >>I've found a lot of support regarding a sources.list problem
> >>that apparently is fairly common but isn't the problem I have...
> >>
> >>
> >>I picked some bad sources and entered the deb lines incorrectly
> >>before I figured out the correct way to do these things...
> >>but apt and dselect won't forget every mistake I've ever made.
> >>
> >>now I have good sources in my sources.list file that all work great
> >>but apt and dselect continue to look up every bad entry I ever made
> >>along with my good sources...
> >>
> >>this takes totally forever for the bad ones to time out
> >>even though the good ones update very quickly
> >>
> >>how can it be remembering all my previous bad entries
> >>when I removed them from sources.list?
> >>
> >>how come updating sources.list doesn't just use my new sources?
> >>
> >>I've spent hours trying to get apt and dselect to forget my old entries
> >>despite the fact that I long ago removed them from sources.list...
> >>but I'm totally confused on how to get this accomplished.
> >>
> >>apt-get update doesn't solve the problem.
>
Try hasing ou all your sources, yep even the good ones, in
/etc/apt/sources.list, then
apt-get update
Then un-hash all your sources, and
apt-get update
Will force system to re-load its sources database
worked for me !!
Dave
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