Re: [Gnewsense-dev] software-properties-gtk error

[Karl Goetz]

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:34:39 -0500
Quiliro Ordóñez <address@hidden> wrote:

> When I try to change the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list via
> Syunaptics interface I get a window with the following message (I
> translated it):
> 
> The repositories have changed.
> 
> The information from the repositories has changed. You should press
> the "Reload" button so these changes come into effect.
> 
> But I never get the window where I am supposed to chage the repos.
> Tryed erasing /etc/apt/sources.list and removing all entries except
> one. But no luck.
> 
> 
> Executing from the console I get:
> 
> $ sudo /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk
> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apt/__init__.py:18: FutureWarning:
> apt API not stable yet
>   warnings.warn("apt API not stable yet", FutureWarning)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk", line 100, in <module>
>     app = SoftwarePropertiesGtk(datadir=data_dir, options=options,
> file=file) File
> "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/softwareproperties/gtk/SoftwarePropertiesGtk.py",
> line 75, in __init__ SoftwareProperties.__init__(self,
> options=options, datadir=datadir) File
> "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py",
> line 55, in __init__ self.reload_sourceslist()
>   File
> "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py",
> line 450, in reload_sourceslist
> self.distro.get_sources(self.sourceslist) File
> "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/aptsources/distro.py", line 85, in
> get_sources "Error: could not find a distribution template")
> aptsources.distro.NoDistroTemplateException
> 

This is gNS bugs [1][2].
Can probably be fixed by grabbing the gns.info file we ship in builder,
but that has to be confirmed.
kk


[1] https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=28233
[2] https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=28181

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