Re: 404 errors with Squeeze security
On Friday 14 December 2012 00:40:32 Glenn English wrote:
> On Dec 13, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Thursday 13 December 2012 22:26:32 Tom H wrote:
> >> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> On Thursday 13 December 2012 16:59:57 Tom H wrote:
> >>>> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>
wrote:
> >>>>> Err http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main mysql-common all
> >>>>> 5.1.63-0+squeeze1
> >>>>> 404 Not Found [IP: 212.211.132.32 80]
> >>>>
> >>>> There should be a space between "squeeze/updates" and "main", not a
> >>>> "/".
> >>>
> >>> My sources list entry is:
> >>> deb http://security.debian.org/squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
> >>> deb-src http://security.debian.org/squeeze/updates main contrib
> >>> non-free
> >>>
> >>> As you see, no slash. Aptitude put the slash in.
> >>>
> >>> But this is now solved anyway. There was a space where none should be.
> >>>
> >>> <quote>
> >>> It says:
> >>> org/ squeeze
> >>> where it should say
> >>> org/squeeze
> >>>
> >>> I.e. there was an extraneous space.
> >>> </quote>
> >>>
> >>> All is now well.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for the input.
> >>
> >> You're welcome. I saw you later email earlier but didn't have the time
> >> to answer.
> >>
> >> What you're saying is that you have
> >>
> >> http://security.debian.org/squeeze/updates main
> >>
> >> and aptitude's turning it into
> >>
> >> http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main
> >>
> >> but I'm saying that it should be
> >>
> >> http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
> >
> > That is what I had before the install failed - repeatedly, and always
> > with the same error. Now that I have removed the space it all works. I
> > am therefore somewhat reluctant to restore the space. :-)
>
> My sources.list line says:
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
Yes, that was what I had before I removed the space. It had been working fine
and suddenly started to throw errors. Removing the space after .org/ and
before squeeze solved the problem.
> That was put there by the installer, who calls itself "cdrom:[Debian
> GNU/Linux 6.0.6 _Squeeze_ - Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1
> 20120930-15:53]/ squeeze main".
Me too, except that I use the net-ionstall disk
> Martin Krafft, in his book "The Debian System", suggests:
>
> deb http://security.debian.org sarge/updates main contrib non-free
>
> Both Martin and the installer ought to know, but they don't say quite the
> same thing -- note the '/' (or lack thereof) after debian.org...
>
> Does anyone know for sure what's going on?
I do hope that someone does and is willing to share the secret!
Lisi
> Is there maybe a bug in one of
> the apt programs that concatenates stings incorrectly (so the '/' makes a
> difference)? Has something changed since sarge?
>
> --
> Glenn English
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