[Xapian-discuss] trouble on getting source

[Allen]

I solved it by modifing source.list, change stable to etch :

deb http://www.xapian.org/debian etch main
deb-src http://www.xapian.org/debian etch main

2008/10/7 Olly Betts <olly at survex.com>

> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 09:50:09AM +0800, Allen wrote:
> > I have a problem on getting source of xapian.
> >
> > 1st, run 'wget -O- http://www.xapian.org/debian/archive_key.asc|apt-key<http://www.xapian.org/debian/archive_key.asc%7Capt-key>add
> > -', result shows '09:35:29 (6.42 KB/s) - `-' saved [2437/2437]' and OK,
> but
> > i found nothing on my disk,
>
> No file is created locally - wget is downloading the file to stdout,
> which is piped into apt-key's stdin.
>
> > 2nd, run 'apt-get update' but get a warnning:
> > W: Conflicting distribution: http://www.xapian.org stable Release
> (expected
> > stable but got etch)
>
> The warning is harmless really (etch *is* the current debian stable),
> but you can fix it by replacing "stable" with "etch" in that line in
> "/etc/apt/sources.list" if you want.
>
> > If it caused by the 1st step?
> >
> > I modify my /etc/apt/sources.list, from stable to unstable:
> > deb http://www.xapian.org/debian unstable main
> > deb-src http://www.xapian.org/debian unstable main
> >
> > run 'apt-get update' but get another warnning:
> > W: Conflicting distribution: http://www.xapian.org unstable Release
> > (expected unstable but got sid)
>
> Um, if you're running stable, don't try to use packages from unstable
> - they are likely not to work properly.
>
> If you are running unstable, then sid *is* debian unstable, but you can
> explicitly write "sid" in "/etc/apt/sources.list" if you prefer.
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>