[Gllug] Is this a bug in apt-get

Joel Bernstein joel at fysh.org
Sun Jun 18 22:26:34 UTC 2006


On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 11:24:34PM +0100, Joel Bernstein wrote:
> It's pretty obvious. Your machine couldn't connect to
> http://ftp.uk.debian.org, but it successfully managed to get the package
> from http://security.debian.org - can you see that now? So, you were
> partially correct. It failed to connect to the UK repository, true. But
> the packages it installed were, as it *told* you, downloaded from the
> Debian security-update repository. Not any local cache.

I'm very sorry. On re-reading, that sounds like I was sniping at you 
for not understanding the apt-get output. Which was not my intention.
Please accept my apologies for any offence caused.

/joel
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