On 2013-03-18 21:54 +0100, Eugen Wintersberger wrote:
> I have a problem with one of my private apt repositories. I created
> the repo using reprepro on my public www directory.
> I can access the repository with my browser (you can find it below
> http://www.desy.de/~wintersb/apt/debian ). After adding some packages I
> tried to add a new line to sources.list
>
> deb http://www.desy.de/~wintersb/apt/debian testing main
>
> However, during 'apt-get update' I get the following error message
>
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://www.desy.de/~wintersb/apt/debian/dists/testing/main/binary-amd64/Packages
> 404 Not Found
>
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://www.desy.de/~wintersb/apt/debian/dists/testing/main/binary-i386/Packages
> 404 Not Found
>
> E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones
> used instead.
>
> What is more surprising is the fact that I can download the Packages
> file with wget using the URLs in the error messages. Does anyone have an
> idea what I did wrong. I am fairly new to this entire repository
> business.
>
> best regards
> Eugen
>
> PS: the repository resides on an AFS file system - could this cause the
No, it's a misconfiguration in your webserver. Unlike wget, apt encodes
the tilde ("~") in the URI as %7e, and the webserver returns a 404 error
on that. This seems to be in violation of RFC 3986¹.
Cheers,
Sven
¹ http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt
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