Re: Apt pkglist not updated?

[Rex Dieter <rdieter math unl edu>]

Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet) wrote:
> Brian Perkins wrote:
>
> > http://download.fedoralegacy.org/apt/redhat/9/i386/base/ 
> > pkglist.updates.bz2
> >
> >
> > was last modified Sept. 15th, but there are some new packages since  
> > then.  I suspect that this is why apt isn't getting the new updates  
> > for me.
> >
> > Perhaps I'm using an old/broken version of apt?

I posted about it not working last week to deafening silence.  Grad I'm 
not the only one.

> I believe some time ago a lot of repositories discontinued apt  support 
> (by not generating apt metadata anymore), also because apt  for rpm is 
> no longer being maintained.

True, but irrelavent to this discussion.

Either provide working apt metadata, or remove it completely.

-- Rex