TADA! Repeatability: On 1/26/14, Zenaan Harkness <z...@freedbms.net> wrote: > On 1/26/14, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: >> On Sun 26 Jan 2014 at 04:52:10 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> >>> I'm currently home and running on local repo. >> >> With >> deb ftp://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian sid main contrib non-free >> >> as the only line in sources.list do you have >> ftp.iinet.net.au_debian_debian_dists_sid_main_i18n_Translation-en ? >> >> I do - and 'apt-cache show' works as expected. > > So do I now. Don't know what happened sorry. Could an ifdown and ifup > on a new network do that?
OK, /var/lib/apt/lists/ currently contains the Translation-en files for _both_ my Internet/iiNet sources entry, _and_ my local file:/// repo entry. Now, when I change the sources.list to point to local file:/// sources, commenting out the iiNet sources, and _not_ doing an apt-get update, then package long descriptions disappear! Even though the Translation-en files are still all there. You see, I forgot my external repo HDD at the place that has Internet access, but I _had_ updated sources.list after upding that HDD mirror (I needed a new kernel to test for debugging a non-bootability issue, and did not want to wait for the mirror to update, which is why I swapped over to the public Internet repo at all. I cannot leave the public repo in sources.list enabled, since the abysmal/slow internet at home just dies with even an apt-get update. Anyway, the problem is not hard to work around, now that I know why it happens. Zenaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOsGNSSNv3cGvJKjUG=coiiaccp_ckwz7e3wmw5t5kg3qpt...@mail.gmail.com