[Aptitude-devel] Bug#619811: updates silently ignored

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

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Hi Harri,

2011-03-27 12:20 Harald Dunkel:
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>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.6.3-3.2
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>My sources.list contained
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>	deb http://mysite.de/debian unstable main contrib non-free
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>The "contrib" and "non-free" repositories are not defined in
>my package database. "aptitude update" didn't print an error message,
>but silently fell back to an old Packages file.
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>Regards

2013-07-14 09:32 Harald Dunkel:
>Can you reproduce this?


With 0.7.5, it seems that the errors are printed now (I don't know if
they are the same or not, but I guess that they are equivalent for the
purpose of this bug).  So it seems that the bug is not present now.

Can you please confirm?


  # aptitude update
  Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease
  Hit http://debug.mirrors.debian.org/debian-debug unstable-debug InRelease
  Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian experimental InRelease
  Get: 1 http://mysite.de/debian unstable InRelease
  Err http://mysite.de/debian unstable InRelease
  Clearsigned file isn't valid, got 'NOSPLIT' (does the network require authentication?)
  Hit http://debug.mirrors.debian.org/debian-debug experimental-debug InRelease
  W: Failed to fetch http://mysite.de/debian/dists/unstable/InRelease: Clearsigned file isn't valid, got 'NOSPLIT' (does the network require authentication?)
  E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

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Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>