Strange apt-get behaviour
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!
Strange apt-get behaviour...
Please respond to the above email as I only subscribe to the digest, and not the actual mailing list. Guys, I tried running apt-get on a potato system running kernel 2.2.12 this afternoon, and when it finished downloading the Packages.gz files, apt-get exited with this error message: Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Malformed Priority line E: Error occured while processing aleph-dev (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_potat o_main_binary-i386_Packages E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. I'm assuming that this might have something to do with incorrect permissions being set or something along those lines. The only problem that I can see that I could have induced was the accidental destruction of my suid.conf file a couple of days ago... As far as I know, that's the only thing that has changed on my system. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!!!
Re: Strange apt-get behaviour...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please respond to the above email as I only subscribe to the digest, and not the actual mailing list. Guys, I tried running apt-get on a potato system running kernel 2.2.12 this afternoon, and when it finished downloading the Packages.gz files, apt-get exited with this error message: Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Malformed Priority line E: Error occured while processing aleph-dev (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_potat o_main_binary-i386_Packages E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. I'm assuming that this might have something to do with incorrect permissions being set or something along those lines. The only problem that I can see that I could have induced was the accidental destruction of my suid.conf file a couple of days ago... As far as I know, that's the only thing that has changed on my system. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!!! This is not your fault--the downloaded file is bad. Short answer: edit the /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_potato_main_binary-i386_Packages file with a text editor. There are two places where optional is misspelled as optionnal. Just remove the extra 'n's, and everything will work. Long answer: Check out the Unstable package list at ftp.debian.org is bad thread in this list. - Kris
