Re: Aptitude warning msg

[Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 07:26:45PM +0000, Manon Metten wrote:
> 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.
> 
> >> 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?
> Can you point me to some more info on this topic?

Hi Manon.

Just do anothe aptitude update.  Aptitude will fix its
/var/lib/apt/lists and all will be well.

Doug.