Ign in apt-get update?

James Tappin sjt at star.sr.bham.ac.uk
Fri May 6 14:23:20 UTC 2005


On Fri, 06 May 2005 10:11:00 -0400
Steve Haines <haines at ita.com.py> wrote:

SH> When running apt-get update, what does "Ign" mean? Here is an
SH> example:
SH> 
SH> stephen at ubuntu:~ $ sudo apt-get update
SH> Password:
SH> Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary Release.gpg [189B]
SH> Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary-updates Release.gpg
SH> Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary Release
SH> Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com hoary-security Release.gpg [189B]
SH> Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary-updates Release [16.8kB]
SH> 
SH> I assume it's "ignore," but what does THAT mean to the update
SH> process? I  tried "man apt-get" and the document in
SH> /usr/share/doc/apt-doc/, but  didn't see anything that mentioned
SH> Ign.
SH> 

Basically it means it hasn't fetched it because you already have the
file with the same date.

James

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