Re: Bug#33927: apt cannot upgrade
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Daniel Zahn wrote:
> When I try to use apt to upgrade to slink or potato I get errors from many
> important packages like glibc, makedev, modconf, etc...I think 20 in all.
> The error says:
>
> $ apt-get upgrade
> ....
> Error ftp://ftp.us.debian.org potato/main modconf
> 550 /debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/modconf_0.2.26.deb: not a
> plain file
>
> It says the some thing for every file it errors on(changing path obviously
> for each one)
This is not a bug, the remote mirror is mearly out of date. Not a plain
file means it mirrored a symlink but not the symlinks target.
Jason
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