[Refdb-devel] [ refdb-Bugs-1597383 ] using dselect (Debian)

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Bugs item #1597383, was opened at 2006-11-16 09:40
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: John Beining (jbeining)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: using dselect (Debian)

Initial Comment:
When i use dselect (Debian) 'update' to access http://refdb.sourceforge.net/debian/addons testing main i get the following message (error): dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/cache/apt/ available' near line 454484 package 'dbn-querydtd': field name 'This' must be followed by colon

update available list script returned error exit status 2.
(apt-get install is working fine)

For http://refdb.sourceforge.net/debian/release testing main and http://refdb.sourceforge.net/debian/svn testing main, i can use apt-get install and/or dselect.


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Comment By: David Nebauer (davidnebauer)
Date: 2006-11-17 19:13

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Thanks for pointing out this problem with the addons repository.  I
suspect the problem is with a malformed Packages.gz file in the repository
tree.  Some package managers (e.g., aptitude) are able to cope with the
errors in the file but others cannot (e.g., dselect).

I've corrected the problem and uploaded a new repository.  Please test it
and let me know if the problem is fixed.

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