severity 317432 normal tags 317432 unreproducible thanks On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:13:17PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > I have the following line in sources.list: > > deb http://debian.madduck.net ~madduck/packages/internal/ > > This causes > > http://debian.madduck.net/~madduck/packages/internal/Release > http://debian.madduck.net/~madduck/packages/internal/Packages > > to be downloaded. These are created with apt-ftparchive and look > okay to me. However, after the APT update, I get the following > error: > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Unable to parse package file > /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.madduck.net_%7emadduck_packages_sponsor_Release (1) > E: Problem opening > /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.madduck.net_%7emadduck_packages_internal_Packages > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. > > The weird thing is that it's reporting a failure to parse the > *package* file when reading Release. > > What's going on? Is this a bug, or my fault?
The Release file and the Packages file have the same high-level format, and so use the same parser. The error message is misleading in this case, but it would seem to indicate a problem interpreting your Release file. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
