up2date and apt

Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us
Fri Oct 17 06:46:09 UTC 2003


Hi all,

anyone been suucesful withusing apt and up2date?  every time i try to use it i 
get all sorts of errors.

from a CL  i get this it gets the package lists ok  from most apt repositories  
but not rpm.livna.org

Fetching package list for channel: rpm.livna.org-i386-stable...

Fetching http://rpm.livna.org//fedora/0.95/i386/base/pkglist.stable.bz2...
gh1
gh2
There was some sort of I/O error: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

removing  that one source i get this far

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: arjan-2.6-kernel-i386-kernel...

Fetching obsoletes list for http://people.redhat.com/~arjanv/2.5/...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1183, in ?
    sys.exit(main() or 0)
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 761, in main
    fullUpdate, dryRun=options.dry_run))
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1046, in batchRun
    batch.run()
  File "up2dateBatch.py", line 58, in run
  File "up2dateBatch.py", line 96, in __findPackagesToUpdate
  File "packageList.py", line 123, in run
  File "rhnPackageInfo.py", line 404, in obsoletesList
  File "rpcServer.py", line 109, in doCall
  File "repoDirector.py", line 27, in getObsoletes
  File "rpmSource.py", line 249, in getObsoletes
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/aptRepo.py", line 160, in 
getObsoletes
    hdrList = rpm.readHeaderListFromFile(fileHdrList)
rpm.error: (2, 'No such file or directory')
apt-get and synaptic work with all repositories  fine.  but i really like the 
way up2date handles kernel updates.


Dennis





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