I was recently trying to download the latest "Evolution" from helix gnome using apt-get, and had some problems.
I have the sources.list line: deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/evolution/distributions/Debian ./ When I did "apt-get update" it happily did so, but doing "apt-get dist-upgrade" would not update evolution_0.5.1 into evolution_0.6. I had a look at the Package file (in /var/state/apt/lists) and discovered that the Package file only mentioned version 0.5.1. But when I visited the above directory using Netscape, I found plenty of 0.6 files there, and downloading the Package.gz file manually using netscape and looking at it, it seems that it was a different Package file (with version 0.6 of evolution mentioned) to the one obtained by apt-get. Very strange. As far as I am aware, my ISP is not using a http proxy, but it is possible that it is --- I've heard that it's possible to do transparent proxying. Perhaps then apt-get was getting a cached version of Packages, and hence an old version. But the funny thing then is, why did Netscape download the right thing, but not apt-get? They both used the same http protocol I presume! I deleted apt-get's versions of the package file (in /var/state/apt/lists), thus forcing apt-get to redownload it, but it still got the old one. So it does sound very much like a proxy thing. Also, I connected using a different ISP and this time it worked properly. So I would go with the transparent proxy and cache as being the cause. Except for the fact that Netscape downloaded it correctly. Any thoughts, Cheers, Mark. -- _/~~~~~~~~\___/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________ ____/~~\_____/~~\__/~~\__________________________Mark_Phillips____________ ____/~~\_____/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ____/~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_____________________________________________ ____/~~\______/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!"
