[clug] apt-get problem :-S

[Rob Weir]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 11:45:15PM +1100, Nemo -earth native- said
> When I first saw this I considered it a bug - shoulnd't your package
> management program be SUPER robust? and besides, having a static memory
> size like that assumes a level of knowing the maximum possible size of
> the next debian release...

Heh, well, the problem only hits people with more than one Debian
distribution listed in their sources.list; ie telling apt about ~4 times
as many packages existed when woody released.

> (PS: make sure you have the latest apt-get - the default limit has
> probably been increased since the version you have anyways, due to
> exactly this ;)

Yeah, the limit was upped by a fair bit in the apt in sid and sarge.

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