oddity in apt-cache
I have three separate machines that have identical entries in
/etc/apt/sources.list. All were updated and upgraded this morning as a
result of troubleshooting this issue. On machine #1 I can apt-cache
show nhfsstone and it returns the expected data on nhfsstone. On
machines 2 and 3 it tells me that the nhfsstone package cannot be
found. Running apt-cache search nfs on all machines yeilds similar
results. Machine #1 has nhfsstone included in the result set. Machines
2 and 3 do not.
All machines are pointed to: deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian sid
main contrib non-free.
This just makes absolutely no sense to me. I'm pointing all three to
the same set of repositories and yet two machines cannot find a software
package the other machine finds. I realize that all machines may not
see exactly the same server every time, but to have a package being
found on one machine and missing on two others seems very strange.
Can anyone explain this anomaly this to me?
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