Re: sarge, aptitude, archives

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2008-11-17 23:44 +0100, jeremy bentham wrote:

> I can't use aptitude anymore.
>
> It was working, pre-sarge-archive.
>
> Typing aptitude on the command line gives me this:
>
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.debian.org sarge/main
> Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.debian.org_debian-archive_dists_sarge_
> main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.debian.org sarge/contrib
> Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.debian.org_debian-archive_dists_sarge
> _contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.debian.org sarge/non-free
> Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.debian.org_debian-archive_dists_sarge
> _non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
>
> (That's 3 _long_ lines; I broke them up for e-mail convenience.)
>
> My sources.list
>
> deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/ sarge main contrib non-free
>
> per the README at the archive site.

That README is wrong, since there is no debian-archive directory on
archive.debian.org, only a debian directory.  This has already been
reported: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=505754.

So you just need to s/debian-archive/debian/ in your sources.list.

Sven