On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 11:54:22AM +0100, Michael Vogt wrote: > Thanks for your bugreport. > > I can reproduce the failure here and I'm looking into the problem > now. As a workaround you can run: > > # apt-get update -o Acquire::PDiffs=false Looks like the diff file is corrupt; applying it manually to the Packages file using ed leaves an invalid Packages file. Julian