On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 10:12:53AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Package: aptitude > Version: 0.4.1-1.1 > Severity: minor > > Every time I manually edit sources.list and run aptitude update, > I get errors like this: > > > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://mirrors.kernel.org > unstable/non-free Packages > (/var/lib/apt/lists/mirrors.kernel.org_debian_dists_unstable_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) > - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://mirrors.kernel.org > unstable/non-free Packages > (/var/lib/apt/lists/mirrors.kernel.org_debian_dists_unstable_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) > - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: You may want to update the package lists to correct these missing files > W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems > > > For one thing, it suggests apt-get update directly. For another, the lists > aren't missing; the files exist, and as far as I can tell aptitude can see > them, and running aptitude update a second time doesn't produce the error. > > It's done this for as long as I can remember; I assumed it was an apt > problem, but it isn't. If I use only apt-get update it does not manifest.
apt-get doesn't generate these errors because it doesn't read the package lists for an "update" command. aptitude doesn't need the lists for updates either, so I recently modified it to not load them; that should solve this as a side effect. I'll merge this bug with that one even though they are about different behaviors, so I don't forget to close this at the same time. Daniel
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