Hi, again!
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:48:02AM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
To know what is going on with your system, we would need to see your
/etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/preferences files.
#/etc/apt/sources.list:
#########################################################################
deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib
deb-src ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib
#########################################################################
[ .... ]
Hmm. I don't really feel that it was me that did the mixing. :-)
However, I take the point. I'll try the suggestion you gave me up above
(putting "oldstable" into sources.list), and then report on what
happened.
My /etc/apt/source.list now looks like this:
#########################################################################
#deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib
deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ oldstable main contrib
#deb-src ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib
deb-src ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ oldstable main contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ oldstable/updates main contrib
#########################################################################
When I now start aptitude, I get a plethora of errors with the following
form:
W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://ftp.de.debian.org oldstable/main Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_oldstable_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or
directory)
[...]
Here, "stable -> etch" and "oldstable -> sarge" seem to be of equal
status. This is making me feel stupid; what stupid mistake have I made
in my source.list?