On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:08:22 -0700 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have three separate machines that have identical entries in > /etc/apt/sources.list. All were updated and upgraded this morning as > a result of troubleshooting this issue. On machine #1 I can > apt-cache show nhfsstone and it returns the expected data on > nhfsstone. On machines 2 and 3 it tells me that the nhfsstone > package cannot be found. Running apt-cache search nfs on all > machines yeilds similar results. Machine #1 has nhfsstone included > in the result set. Machines 2 and 3 do not. > > All machines are pointed to: deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian sid > main contrib non-free. > > This just makes absolutely no sense to me. I'm pointing all three to > the same set of repositories and yet two machines cannot find a > software package the other machine finds. I realize that all > machines may not see exactly the same server every time, but to have > a package being found on one machine and missing on two others seems > very strange. > > Can anyone explain this anomaly this to me? > Look in the directory /var/lib/apt/lists/ on the various machines. Are the properties of the files consistent? -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
