Re: oddity in apt-cache
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:08:22 -0700
Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net> wrote:
> 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?
>
Look in the directory /var/lib/apt/lists/ on the various machines. Are
the properties of the files consistent?
--
Liam
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