On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 07:28:05AM -0500, Bill Allombert wrote: > retitle 309357 woody aptitude update can fail > quit > On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 01:45:14PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 05:58:24PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > > Long version: > > > The current version of the release notes tells users to (simplified): > > > 1. apt-get install aptitude > > > 2. change the /etc/apt/sources.list to point to "stable" > > > 3. aptitude update > > In my test a few days ago I had to use apt-get update because of a bug > > in aptitude which refused to update the files from the new source. I'm > > not sure if this was only because I also changed to an other mirror. > > > > I'd change the release notes to tell users to do apt-get update to work > > around this bug in woodys aptitude. > > This is bug #309357, though I cannot reproduce the problem with my > setup (with neither aptitude 0.2.11.1-3 nor 0.2.11.1-4).
I just downgraded to aptitude 0.2.11.1-4 and apt 0.5.4 (on the upgraded sarge system) and can reproduce this bug. If I change the lines back to woody in sources.list aptitude update fails while apt-get update succeeds. aptitude 0.2.15.9-2 and apt 0.5.28.6 from sarge don't have this bug. Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~
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