Re: Unstable and Testing stability

[Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com>]

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 08:22:36PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
>   
> > Well after changing all of the lines in my sources.list from etch to 
> > testing, I'm getting an error.
> >
> > /pobega@ackbar:~$ sudo apt-get update
> > Password:
> > Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org testing Release.gpg [378B]
> > Get:2 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B]
> > Get:3 http://ftp.debian.org testing Release [74.4kB]
> > Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release
> > Get:4 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main Packages [4319kB]
> > Get:5 http://ftp.debian.org testing/contrib Packages [58.0kB]
> > Get:6 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main Sources [1222kB]
> > Get:7 http://ftp.debian.org testing/contrib Sources [18.4kB]
> > Fetched 5691kB in 20s (275kB/s)
> > Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/etch/updates/Release  
> > Unable to find expected entry  testing/binary-i386/Packages in 
> > Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old 
> > ones used instead.
> >
> > /My sources.list is:
> >
> > /pobega@ackbar:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 
> > NETINST Binary-1 20070107-08:41]/ etch contrib main
> >
> > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib
> > deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib
> >
> > deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates testing contrib
> > deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates testing contrib/
> >     
>
> Your first line points to testing but the third line (security) still
> points to etch.
>
> Doug.
>
>
>   
Oh wow, I didn't notice that. Well I removed the etch and replaced it 
with testing, but now I'm getting this error:

Failed to fetch 
http://security.debian.org/dists/testing/updates/Release  Unable to find 
expected entry  testing/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file 
(malformed Release file?)
Reading package lists... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org 
testing/updates/testing Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_testing_updates_testing_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org 
testing/updates/contrib Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_testing_updates_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org 
testing/updates/testing Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_testing_updates_testing_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org 
testing/updates/contrib Packages 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_testing_updates_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) 
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old 
ones used instead.