Re: problem with security page

[Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 10:56:23AM -0700, Andrew T. Young wrote:

> You can use apt to easily get the latest security updates. This requires a
> line such as
> 
>     deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free 
> 
> in your /etc/apt/sources.list file.

  This is correct.

> However, when I put this line in the file, I get the following error
> messages on running  aptitude update:

  Do you mean update?  If not perhaps you have either disk-full
 issues, or other networking problems.

> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org
> sarge/updates/main Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_sarge_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)

    
> W: You may want to update the package lists to correct these missing files
> W: You may want to update the package lists to correct these missing files

  If you'd added this line to your sources.list file then ran

aptitude up*GRADE*

  You'd see an error message like you have posted. 

> It seems that I have to put "stable" rather than "sarge" in the deb line
> in /etc/apt/sources.list .

  'sarge' is supported.

Steve
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