On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Daniel Zahn wrote:
> When I try to use apt to upgrade to slink or potato I get errors from many > important packages like glibc, makedev, modconf, etc...I think 20 in all. > The error says: > > $ apt-get upgrade > .... > Error ftp://ftp.us.debian.org potato/main modconf > 550 /debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/modconf_0.2.26.deb: not a > plain file > > It says the some thing for every file it errors on(changing path obviously > for each one) This is not a bug, the remote mirror is mearly out of date. Not a plain file means it mirrored a symlink but not the symlinks target. Jason
