Strange Debian sources.list quirk?

[Tony Baechler]

Gaijin wrote:
> 	Upgraded to Debian Lenny from a scratch Shane Etch disk, and
> voila!  A slew of SpeakUP modified kernels.  I apt-got the docs first to
> see what was what, and commented out the "deb cdrom:" in
> /etc/apt/sources.list, and all the kernels disappeared.  Uncommented the
> line again, and thank God the list reappeared.  Anyone have a clue what
> the story behind this is?
>   


Hi,

Yes, I had the exact same problem.  It was very strange that packages 
would suddenly disappear when I knew they were there.  I forgot to run:

aptitude update

That solved the problem.  Obviously, make sure to put an http or ftp 
mirror in your sources.list since commenting out the CD-ROM will make 
that source unavailable.  When I finally figured it out, it showed 
something over 21,000 new packages, so apparently not running "aptitude 
update" makes it forget everything.  I don't think Etch did that but the 
Etch server is stable and I make it a point to not change anything 
unless I absolutely must!