Re: Unstable and Testing stability
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 08:59:33PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
> 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.
> >>
>>
> >>/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.
So what happens with apt-get update?
Doug.
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