I am building the a third new mail server at the moment. They are similar machines with one network connection on the same segment as the ftp-servers (archive and archive2).
I have copied /etc/apt/sources.list from one of the productions machines (say machine 1) to the new one. The md5sum of the file on machine 2 is the same as the on on the machine 1, but while it works machine 1 it fails on 2. I have tried the same sources.list on another machine in the network and it works without a problem. The file is too large to include everything but here are the first few lines and the error message that I get on machine 2. deb ftp://archive2.sun.ac.za/debian stable main contrib non-free deb ftp://archive.sun.ac.za/debian/non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb ftp://archive.sun.ac.za/debian stable main contrib non-free deb ftp://archive.sun.ac.za/debian stable-proposed-updates main contrib non-free deb ftp://archive.sun.ac.za/debian/non-US stable-proposed-updates/non-US main contrib non-free deb ftp://archive.sun.ac.za/mirrorsites/security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://archive.sun.ac.za/debian stable main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://archive.sun.ac.za/debian/non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information... Done ... snip ... Lots of errors like this: W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://archive.sun.ac.za stable-proposed-updates/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.sun.ac.za_debian_dists_stable-proposed-updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) But: lftpget ftp://archive.sun.ac.za/debian/dists/stable-proposed-updates/main/binary-i386/Packages downloads "Packages" without a problem from the same machine. Al three mail server have the same version of apt. This sources list was also tested on a sid machine without a problem. Any idea what can be causing this? Regards Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "Fear not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee and I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness." Isaiah 41:10
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