[conspire] Ubuntu Unable to process updates

[Rick Moen]

Correcting a silly error:

> *buntu release names, thus far:
> 
> Warty Warthog, 4.10
> Hoary Hedgehog, 5.04
> Breezy Badger, 5.10
> Dapper Drake, 6.06 "LTS"
> Edgy Eft, 6.10
> Feisty Fawn, 7.04
> Gutsy Gibbon, 7.10
> Hardy Heron, 8.04 "LTS" (if they make the 2007, month 04 target)
                                            ^^^^  Should be "2008".
> Intrepid Ibix, probably 8.10 (if they make the 2008, month 10 target)

In other words, they encoded the release year/month into release
numbers, from the very first, e.g., "warty" was released October 2004.



To dissect a representative line from the sources.list file:

> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted universe multiverse

"deb" = type of repository.  There are others, including "deb-src" for
source-code packages.

"http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/" = Base URL for package collections.

"feisty" = name of branch

"main restricted universe multiverse" = Top-dir of collections within branch.


The apt-get command infers that the base URL should be fleshed out like
this, to get the catalogues:

[base URL]/dists/[branchname]/[collectionname]/binary-[cputype]/[catalogues]

You'll notice the catalogue files within
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/main/binary-i386/ .
Those ASCII-format catalogue files, in turn, include for each package
described the actual locations of the catalogued packages, which (as you
can verify) are in the "package pools" tree,
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/ .