Re: [gNewSense-users] Repositories

[Karl Goetz]

On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:46:29 +0100
Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden> wrote:

> Koh Choon Lin wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > After installing a fresh copy of 2.1 and updating all, suddenly
> > Synaptics's repositories function and "System -> Administration ->
> > Software Sources" is non functional or, cannot start. Any idea what
> > went wrong?
> > 
> > 
> You're not the only one, see also [1].

I seem to recall this bug was raised in the 2.0 days. definitely pre
2.1.
purely IIRC (I've not checked the svn commit again), it was a result of
python-apt being ignorant of 'deltad' as a release.
kk

> 
> Hm, now that I've bothered to look for it I see that this has been 
> reported before [2]. I'd traced it to "something having to do with 
> python-apt/templates" myself. I guess Karl or Brian can fill in the
> details?
> 
> [1]
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-users/2008-12/msg00140.html
> [2] http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00156


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