Re: apt/sources.list error
On 22 Jan 2004, Philipp Weis <pweis@pweis.com> wrote:
> On 22 Jan 2004, Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com> wrote:
> > W: Couldn't stat source package list
> > http://people.debian.org hmh/postfix/ Packages
> > (/var/lib/apt/lists/people.debian.org_%7ehmh_woody_hmh_postfix_Packages)
> > - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> > W: You may want to update the package lists to correct these missing files
> >
> > I don't understand this. Is it saying that the address I put in
> > sources.list is invalid? Does aptitude update require some kind of
> > switch if the repositories are mixed (stable and testing)? What is thi
> > file /var/lib/apt/lists/people.debian.org...? It does not exist on my
> > machine. Does it need to create this as a directory and is failing to
> > do so?
>
> This seems to be a bug with aptitude, as "apt-get update" works on my
> machine and "aptitude update" should do exactly the same thing. If
> "apt-get update" solves the problem for you, you should probably file a
> bug report against aptitude (after checking this has not been reported
> already).
I justs checked the BTS and this has been reported as #143732 almost two
years ago. Apparently nobody seems to care enough to fix it.
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Philipp Weis pweis@pweis.com
Freiburg, Germany http://pweis.com/
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