retitle 309357 woody aptitude update can fail quit On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 01:45:14PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 05:58:24PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > Long version: > > The current version of the release notes tells users to (simplified): > > 1. apt-get install aptitude > > 2. change the /etc/apt/sources.list to point to "stable" > > 3. aptitude update > In my test a few days ago I had to use apt-get update because of a bug > in aptitude which refused to update the files from the new source. I'm > not sure if this was only because I also changed to an other mirror. > > I'd change the release notes to tell users to do apt-get update to work > around this bug in woodys aptitude.
This is bug #309357, though I cannot reproduce the problem with my setup (with neither aptitude 0.2.11.1-3 nor 0.2.11.1-4). Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]