Re: Aptitude warning msg
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 07:26:45PM +0000, Manon Metten wrote:
> Hi Matthias, Douglas,
>
> On 6/14/07, Mathias Brodala <info@noctus.net> wrote:
>
> >deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etch main
> >> deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etch main
> >> […]
> >> deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
> >> deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
> >
> >Except of the categories, these mirrors are indeed doubled. Drop the first
> >two
> >lines, they make no sense here.
> >
>
>
> On 6/14/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
>
> >Should I remove the following line from my /etc/apt/sources.list:
> >>
> >> deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etch main
> >
> >That depends. this line is just for main. The duplicate is for more
> >than just main. If you want the more, then delete the line with just
> >main. If you only want main, delete the line with more.
>
>
>
>
> I've removed the following lines from /etc/apt/sources.list:
>
> deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etch main
> deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etch main
>
> I hope this will do.
>
It will. I expect aptitude does not complain about duplicates
anymore.
>
>
>
> >> or should I remove the following file from /var/lib/apt/lists:
> >>
> >> ftp.nl.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages
> >>
> >
> >No. /var/lib/ belongs to the packages involved. If you fix
> >sources.list, then apt will fix its own lists.
>
>
> So, does this mean that /var/lib/lists is configured during installation of
> Debian?
aptitude update writes the files in that directory. They are the
package lists downloaded from the repository. These simply contain
the list of packages available in that repository, along with other
metadata such as available version numbers, descriptions, etc. You
can open the files in any text editor to see their contents.
Using aptitude show <pkgname>, for example, picks up the metadata from
these files.
For your sources.list, aptitude has downloaded the package list from
ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/.
--
Kushal Kumaran kushal@it.iitb.ac.in
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