-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I decided to upgrade my slink box to potato tonight, using apt-get > (0.3.10) for the first time, but I've gotten stuck: > > My /etc/apt/sources.list consists of one line: > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > > I first ran "apt-get update", which seemed to work fine. > > Then, I ran "apt-get -f dist-upgrade", which is where things went > awry: apt-get appeared to download a good number of packages > successfully before coughing up 404 Not Found errors for dpkg-ftp, > lilo, dhcpcd, gdb, info, man-db, libgpmg, gpm, dhcpcd, and > nfs-server. Then, apt-get just quit, suggesting I try --fix-missing. > > So I believe I understand what the 404 errors mean -- the files that > apt-get is trying to get simply don't exist -- but what I don't > understand is if I'm doing something wrong that's causing these > errors. Yep, standard HTTP 404 error. > Am I correct in assuming that the Packages list created by "apt-get > update" is somehow out of sync with what's actually on > http.us.debian.org? Or is there something else I'm missing? More to > the point, what can I do to workaround this problem? Try another > mirror? Just rerun apt-get. The problem is that one of the http.us.debian.org mirrors (i forget which one offhand) (http.us.debian.org resolves to about 5 different mirrors) has the directory structure different from the others. Specifically, on all the other mirrors it's /debian/dists/unstable/..., and on this one it's sometimes /dists/unstable/.... Good luck getting potato upgraded successfully. And watch out, especially with the lilo breakage (i don't know if the fix has made it to the mirrors yet) and the main/Packages file breakage. - -- finger for PGP public key. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN/L2D77M/9WKZLW5AQHVTQQAkyTAVZXL1K0mcHGo+xjZMtlfMMYGyuVs gQucTi5WDWvn1+J9RWSntocjlbWimcWfNiWVrbopKjwQYh/acO+jV7BoUc+iOTq1 +ggAcKTom8cOGGT/+w3KUqiMkGFXNQJHE1rflxKr2hy6BbEN4R/UGanSzZdQouwv w+Q6bffQrhE= =k03i -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----