On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 12:47:22AM -0300, Marcelo Melo wrote: > Hi everybody! > > I'm having a weird problem when I edit my sources.list. I recently upgraded > from woody to sarge, and to do so I commented the entire file and left only > one line: > > deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib > > Everything worked fine, but when I tried to replace "sarge" for "testing" on > the sources.list file, I get the following error when running aptitude or > apt-*: > > W: Couldn't start source package list http://ftp.br.debian.org testing/main > Packages > (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.br.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386/ > Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > > I get this errors for all 3 sections, main, non-free and contrib. I've loged > in ftp.br.debian.org and checked that the testing directory does exist, and > is no more than a link to sarge, so I really don't know why I'm having this > problem, since the "stable" that I used before (with woody) worked. >
Did you update *after* editing sources.list? If apt or aptitude detect the modification time of sources.list is *later* than the last time the package database was updated, then it will cause problems. Anytime you modify sources.list, you want to immediately do an apt-get update or aptitude update. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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