Re: Bug#63124: apt-get isn't getting new Package lists
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Matthew Hawkins wrote:
> Okay, I've found out some other stuff which may help.
I think this settles it then..
> the request is getting an IMS miss. That's fair enough, you don't want
> it to return stuff that isn't modified. But here's the clinker:
> The IMS time apt-get is requesting is the last modified time on the
> /var/state/apt/lists/ file, which is being updated each run!
This is correct, however it should remain completely constant. The file is
*never* written to. Are you using some odd funky filesystem/kernel? If, in
fact, that time stamp on those file change, ever, then that is the
problem!
Can you investigate that specficially?
Jason
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