[PlanetCCRMA] Re: question about /var/cache/apt

[Dave Phillips]

Just a note to mention that this did not occur with 'apt-get update' and 
'apt-get dist-upgrade' with PlanetC RH9. I tried it a few minutes ago, 
no problems.

Gregory McCourt wrote:

>Hi Fernando,
>
>Following a recent posting, I've also discovered that /var/apt/archive was full of RPMs, so I did an apt-get clear. Now, when I try to update I get this:
>
>[root at ip-61 dos]# apt-get update
>Get:1 http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/3/i386 release [1424B]
>Fetched 1424B in 0s (22.0kB/s)
>Hit http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/3/i386/core pkglist
>Hit http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/3/i386/core release
>Hit http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/3/i386/updates pkglist
>Hit http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/3/i386/updates release
>Get:1 http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/3/i386/planetccrma pkglist [250kB]
>Hit http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/3/i386/planetccrma release
>Hit http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/3/i386/planetcore pkglist
>Hit http://ccrma.stanford.edu fedora/3/i386/planetcore release
>Fetched 250kB in 19s (12.8kB/s)
>Failed to fetch http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt/fedora/3/i386/base/pkglist.planetccrma  Size mismatch
>Reading Package Lists... Done
>Building Dependency Tree... Done
>E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
>
>I've tried multiple times at different times of the day and get the same. It's the same "Failed to fetch..." as well. I never had this before I did the apt-get clear: Did I mess something up? Is there a quick-fix to this?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Greg
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
>To: Dave Phillips <dlphillips at woh.rr.com>
>Date: 01 Jun 2005 20:50:56 -0700 
>Subject: [PlanetCCRMA] Re: question about /var/cache/apt
>
>On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 19:51, Dave Phillips wrote:
>  
>
>>Greetings:
>>
>>  I noticed that /var/cache/apt/archives contains about 2G of RPMs. Can 
>>these be deleted safely ? Advice appreciated, I could really use the 
>>disk space.
>>    
>>
>
> apt-get clean
>should do the trick...
>-- Fernando
>
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