Re: apt-get/aptitude update failing

[Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>]

I take it back. I simplified my sources.list to:

  deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free

removed all the cached package files in /var/lib/apt/lists, and ran
apt-get update. This worked:

  [wohler@olgas:808]$ sudo apt-get update
  Get: 1 http://http.us.debian.org etch Release.gpg [189B]
  Get: 2 http://http.us.debian.org etch Release [62.9kB]
  Get: 3 http://http.us.debian.org etch/main Packages [4085kB]
  Get: 4 http://http.us.debian.org etch/contrib Packages [52.1kB]
  Get: 5 http://http.us.debian.org etch/non-free Packages [73.8kB]
  Fetched 4274kB in 28s (149kB/s)
  Reading package lists... Done

I again removed the package files, and ran aptitude update. This bombed:

    [wohler@olgas:812]$ sudo aptitude update
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree... Done
    Reading extended state information
    Initializing package states... Done
    Reading task descriptions... Done
    Building tag database... Done
    Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org etch Release.gpg [189B]
    Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org etch Release [62.9kB]
    Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org etch/main Packages [4085kB]
    Get:4 http://http.us.debian.org etch/contrib Packages [52.1kB]
    Get:5 http://http.us.debian.org etch/non-free Packages [73.8kB]
    Fetched 4274kB in 23s (179kB/s)
    Reading package lists... Done
    W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org etch/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
    W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org etch/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
    W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org etch/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
    W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org etch/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
    W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org etch/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
    W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org etch/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
    W: You may want to update the package lists to correct these missing files
    W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

Guess I should report a bug against aptitude?

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Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>  http://www.newt.com/wohler/  GnuPG ID:610BD9AD