Re: question for sources.list

From: roberto (roberto03_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/06/05

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Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 12:47:18 +0200
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On 9/6/05, Frederic Dernbach <fredatwork@free.fr> wrote:
> roberto a écrit :
>
> >On 9/2/05, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>roberto wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hello, i was using sarge-testing for my laptop but now that sarge is
> >>>stable should i modify my sources.list substituting "testing" with
> >>>"stable"??
> >>>
> >>>Here is my sources.list
> >>>
> >>># Official Debian mirror
> >>>deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
> >>>deb-src http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
> >>>deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian-non-US/ testing/non-US main contrib non-free
> >>>deb-src http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian-non-US/ testing/non-US main
> >>>contrib non-free
> >>>deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
> >>>deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian-non-US/ unstable/non-US main
> >>>contrib non-free
> >>>deb-src http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
> >>>deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ ../project/experimental main
> >>>non-free contrib
> >>>
> >>><<< munch >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>yes you need to put
> >>
> >>deb http://ftp...../debian/ stable main...
> >>deb-src http://,,,,/debian/ stable main ...
> >>
> >>sources.list tells apt where to find the packages.
> >>
> >>but you also need to edit /etc/apt/apt.conf
> >>and change the
> >>
> >>APT::DefaultRelease line to
> >>
> >>APT::DefaultRelease "stable"; [or "sarge"]
> >>
> >>this tells apt which release to use.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >ok, thank you and i'll try to modify sources.list but i did not find
> >any /etc/apt/apt.conf only a directory /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ with a
> >file "70debconf"
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> And do not forget to run 'apt-get update' once you have changed your
> /etc/apt/sources.list file .
>
> Fred
>
well i tried
~:#apt-get update

and after some correct download i got the following errors:
###############################################
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.it.debian.org
stable/non-US/main Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.it.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_stable_non-US_main_binary-i386_Packages)
- stat (2 Nosuch file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.it.debian.org
stable/non-US/contrib Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.it.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_stable_non-US_contrib_binary-i386_Packages)
- stat(2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.it.debian.org
stable/non-US/non-free Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.it.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_stable_non-US_non-free_binary-i386_Packages)
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.it.debian.org
stable/non-US/main Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.it.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_stable_non-US_main_binary-i386_Packages)
- stat (2 Nosuch file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.it.debian.org
stable/non-US/contrib Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.it.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_stable_non-US_contrib_binary-i386_Packages)
- stat(2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.it.debian.org
stable/non-US/non-free Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.it.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_stable_non-US_non-free_binary-i386_Packages)
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.
################################################

i think something is still wrong in sources.list which i attach here:
###############################################
# My sources.list file.

# Official Debian mirror
deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main
contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main
contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main
contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
#deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ ../project/experimental main
non-free contrib

# Security updates
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free

# JDK
deb http://jopa.studentenweb.org/debian/ ./
deb-src http://jopa.studentenweb.org/debian/ ./

# DRI
deb http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk/ ./
deb-src http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk/ ./
################################################

:(
thank you

-- 
roberto
debian sarge, kernel 2.6.8

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