On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Roland Rosenfeld wrote: > "strace -e stat apt-get update" tells me that apt-get tries to access > the above files using stat() (with correct names, no longer problems > with double "_" or something like this), but what does this "Method > gave a blank filename" mean?
That is the bug actually.. Wichert and others reported this problem so I added that new message to find out why it prints the later message, now I know :> That said - this should not effect your use of apt-cdrom, the error message is harmless. > Then I tried the same as above (with an empty cdroms.list and > sources.list) with a potato CD which I burned myself. This CD has a > directory /debian/binary-i386 with all the packages in it and a > Packages file which was created with > dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null > Packages > in the /debian/binary-i386 directory. This is fixed in CVS, little buglet there. This will basically disable using that CD.. Jason
