Re: Squeeze. apt-get update failed to fetch .../binary-i386/Packages.gz
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> Mark Goldshtein wrote:
>> Does the 'http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/contrib i386
>> Packages/DiffIndex' and 'http://http.us.debian.org squeeze/contrib
>> i386 Packages/DiffIndex' are contain the same packages for update?
>
> When I read your message I was going to comment upon some of your
> /etc/apt/sources.list entries. But I didn't have the time to double
> check to see if what I was going to say was going to be wrong and so
> didn't make the comment. They were your entries after all. I assumed
> that you had some reason to put them there. But here you are asking
> about them so I will say something regardless.
>
> You had the following entries:
>
>> deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates contrib non-free main
>> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/updates contrib
>> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
>
> Double check those. Or maybe just clean out your file and start
> again. You appeared to have a significant amount of lint collected in
> your file.
>
> For Lenny I have:
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-free
> deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib non-free
> deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
>
> For Squeeze I propose (squeeze is not released yet):
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze main contrib non-free
> ## available after release: deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile squeeze/volatile main contrib non-free
> ## available after release: deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile squeeze/volatile main contrib non-free
> deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
>
> Try that and you should have better luck.
>
Thanks for your time, Bob! Everything is fine now.
--
Sincerely Yours'
Mark Goldshtein
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