On 5 Oct 2001, Stephen Zander wrote: > The problem is that apt doesn't handle 301 status and complains that > it can't find the necessary Package files. Obviously, I can edit > sources.list to point to the new localtion but I'm rather suprised > that apt is not performing the second request in response to the 301 > status.
It is a deliberate limitation. The sources.list should point to the exact URL that is being used. In the past we have seen apache servers configured with things like mod_spelling which can generate redirects to packages of different verions, etc. Jason
