Hi, Perhaps it is due to the problem caching file. After I removed both *.bin files in /var/cache/apt/ and update the package list again, it works now! Finally, we can update our dists without mirror the whole archive!!
Thanks for the information!! :) Vincent Tres Hofmeister wrote: > > On 2000.08.18, Vincent Tam wrote: > : > : We have some servers still running old version of slink and don't > : want them to potato yet. However we still want to update our slink > : distribution. > : After we change the apt-get sources.list to: > : > : deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian slink main contrib non-free > : > : And updated the package information, while the apt-get try to download > : update packages, it refer to "main", the potato, instead of "slink"!! > : > : What can we do? > > I don't know for sure, but apt seems to cache the retrieved > Packages information in some kind of binary format in these files: > > /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin > /var/cache/apt/srccache.bin > > I'm not sure how you would modify these, but if you've got > a local slink mirror, you can work around the problem. Modify the > Packages files by hand, e.g.: > > # Don't forget contrib and non-free... > cd $YOUR_MIRROR_ROOT/dists/slink/main/binary-i386 > cp -a Packages.gz Packages-dist.gz # Just in case... > gzip -dc Packages.gz |\ > sed 's|^Filename: dists/stable/\(.*\)|Filename: dists/slink/\1|' |\ > gzip -c >Packages.gz > > Then apt-get is happy again, for the time being. > > -- > Tres Hofmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.rap.ucar.edu/~tres/ > Research Applications Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research
