Nondeterministic package list

[Jalfrock]

Some packages (e.g. skype) don't show up even after repeated "apt-get update"s. To investigate this I tried to look at the package list for Karmic in a web-browser. Repeatedly pressing reload in my browser non-deterministically gives me one of the following lists:

aacgain aacplusenc acroread-fonts alsa-firmware amrnb amrwb app-install-data-medibuntu apport-hooks-medibuntu gizmo5 googleearth-data googleearth hot-babe ices libamrnb3 libamrnb-dev libamrwb3 libamrwb-dev libdvdcss2 libdvdcss-dev medibuntu-keyring non-free-codecs realplayer rmconverter w32codecs w64codecs

aacgain aacplusenc acroread-fonts alsa-firmware amrnb amrwb app-install-data-medibuntu apport-hooks-medibuntu gizmo5 googleearth-data googleearth hot-babe ices libamrnb3 libamrnb-dev libamrwb3 libamrwb-dev libdvdcss2 libdvdcss-dev medibuntu-keyring non-free-codecs realplayer rmconverter skype-common skype skype-static w32codecs w64codecs

aacgain aacplusenc acroread-fonts alsa-firmware amrnb amrwb app-install-data-medibuntu apport-hooks-medibuntu gizmo5 googleearth-data googleearth hot-babe ices libamrnb3 libamrnb-dev libamrwb3 libamrwb-dev libavcodec-extra-52 libavcodec-unstripped-52 libavdevice-extra-52 libavdevice-unstripped-52 libavfilter-extra-0 libavfilter-unstripped-0 libavformat-extra-52 libavformat-unstripped-52 libavutil-extra-49 libavutil-unstripped-49 libdvdcss2 libdvdcss-dev libpostproc-extra-51 libpostproc-unstripped-51 libswscale-extra-0 libswscale-unstripped-0 medibuntu-keyring non-free-codecs realplayer rmconverter w32codecs w64codecs

I was trying to install skype. Manually adding details for skype-common and skype-static to /var/lib/apt/lists/packages.medibuntu.org_dists_karmic_non-free_binary-i386_Packages worked as a band-aid.

(Sorry, can't use ubuntu-bug since this doesn't seem to be package-related.)

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Hi,

Thanks for your bug report.

Skype is being removed from our repository (Bug #494564), and ffmpeg added for karmic (Bug #490227). The problem is that (at least) one mirror is completely out of date (~1 week), so depending on the one you reach when doing apt-get update, you'll obtain different results... =]

[sun-wukong (sun-wukong)]

Hi folks !

I do have the same problem but on January 8th. Mirrors shoud have updated themselves by now, don't they ?
I stay tuned.

[Gauvain Pocentek (gpocentek)]

Hey,

Is this still a problem?

Thanks.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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