I have an slink machine trying to do an "apt-get update" via an autofs-mounted nfs directory mirror of ftp.us.debian.org on a remote machine. (Got that ? :) I'm getting the following error ...
fsmail:~# apt-get update Get file:/amnt/mirrors/debian/debian-non-US/ unstable/non-US Packages Get file:/amnt/mirrors/debian/ frozen/contrib Packages Get file:/amnt/mirrors/debian/ frozen/main Packages Get file:/amnt/mirrors/debian/ frozen/non-free Packages Get file:/amnt/mirrors/debian/ project/experimental/ Packages Fetched 600k in 0s (1640k/s) Updating package file cache... E: Line 3 in package file /var/state/apt/lists/amnt_mirrors_debian_dists_frozen_main_binary-i386_Packa ges is too long.(2) fsmail:~# Kind of weird. This is the file in question ... fsmail:~# ls -la /var/state/apt/lists/amnt_mirrors_debian_dists_frozen_main_binary-i386_Packa ges -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1678480 Feb 3 21:21 /var/state/apt/lists/amnt_mirrors_debian_dists_frozen_main_binary-i386_Packa ges And here's the first 10 lines ... fsmail:~# head -10 /var/state/apt/lists/amnt_mirrors_debian_dists_frozen_main_binary-i386_Packa ges Package: 2utf Version: 1.07 Priority: optional Section: text Maintainer: Ricardas Cepas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Depends: libc6 Recommends: locales | wg15-locale, man-db (>= 2.3.10-37) Suggests: tcs, kbd (>= 0.95) | console-utilities Architecture: i386 Filename: dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/text/2utf_1.07.deb fsmail:~# I don't see anything amiss in the package file there, do you ? -- Dean Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 94 TT :) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
