just a warning?

[Derek Broughton]

Me - Atlantic wrote:

> 
>> Hm, usually a 'sudo apt-get update' fixes that.  Try hitting the
>> 'Reload' button in Synaptic.
> Dave~
> I'm curious about this as well.  It happens to me very often in both
> synaptic and [sudo] apt-get...
> 
> I've heard that it was due to traffic on the servers/mirrors.  But,
> after all of the warnings, it still runs the appropriate updates.
> 
> Running Ubuntu 5.10 / 2.6.12-10-386

After a warning like that, it _can't_ run "the appropriate updates".  It
runs updates from any servers it didn't get a warning from, but not from
that specific repository.

otoh, if the sources.list (and, no, the initial message didn't contain the
sources - it allowed us to extrapolate a line or two, but not the whole
thing) happened to contain a line for breezy _and_ one for dapper, on the
same server, then you would get all your updates even if the breezy one was
broken - because it would never really want anything from breezy, anyway.
-- 
derek