On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 12:53:03PM -0700, dsb3 wrote: > > Where the heck the word 'stable' comes from? I removed my hole > > /var/state/apt/ and I do not know where it comes from. Hardcoded anywhere > > perhaps? Or did I miss something grave? > Did you 'apt-get update'? Yeah.
> I'm not an apt-get internals expert but perhaps it cached the 'real' paths > to the ftp/http locations instead of the symlinked ones so they are now > all out of whack. > Which makes me think - is it still possible to apt-get a slink update now > it's fallen off the stable/frozen/unstable chain? As addition: I checked the ftp and it is ok, the symlink is ok, the package is there in the slink tree, but still "stable" is requested. A friend of mine has the same problem with his slink, seems to be reproducable. MfG/Regards, Alexander -- Alexander Reelsen http://joker.rhwd.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG: pub 1024D/F0D7313C sub 2048g/6AA2EDDB [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7D44 F4E3 1993 FDDF 552E 7C88 EE9C CBD1 F0D7 313C Securing Debian: http://joker.rhwd.de/doc/Securing-Debian-HOWTO