Re: apt 0.0.9 : packages/packages.gz

["Scott K. Ellis" <ellis@valueweb.net>]

On Tue, 12 May 1998, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:

> E: Line 2 in package file
> /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.inka.de_debian_dists_frozen_main_binary-i386_Packages
> has no :.
> E: Package file
> /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.inka.de_debian_dists_frozen_main_binary-i386_Packages
> line 2 does not start a package
> 
> don't know why, but this is the .gz file. apt got it without uncompressing,
> und thus it fails. the ftp server is ok, it has packages and packages.gz where
> only the .gz file containt compressed content, and packages itself is not
> compressed.

I also experienced this once with the ftp method, but re-running the
update cleared the problem and I haven't been able to reproduce it again.

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