[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] apt-get: failure to resolve repository

[From: Murray Cumming]

Maybe someone on the scratchbox-users lists knows what might cause this?
I fear it's something very simple.

I'm using scratchbox 1.0.3, from the scratchbox debian repositories, on
the latest Ubuntu Dapper.

On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 13:13 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> I seeing a strange problem with apt-get in scratchbox today. It can't
> resolve repository.maemo.org, though I can wget just fine:
> 
> [sbox-SDK_maemo_686: ~] > fakeroot apt-get update
> Err http://repository.maemo.org maemo1.1/free Packages
>   Temporary failure resolving 'repository.maemo.org'
> Err http://repository.maemo.org maemo1.1/free Release
>   Temporary failure resolving 'repository.maemo.org'
> Err http://repository.maemo.org maemo1.1/non-free Packages
>   Temporary failure resolving 'repository.maemo.org'
> Err http://repository.maemo.org maemo1.1/non-free Release
>   Temporary failure resolving 'repository.maemo.org'
> Err http://repository.maemo.org maemo1.1/free Sources
>   Temporary failure resolving 'repository.maemo.org'
> Err http://repository.maemo.org maemo1.1/free Release
>   Temporary failure resolving 'repository.maemo.org'
> Err http://repository.maemo.org maemo1.1/non-free Sources
>   Temporary failure resolving 'repository.maemo.org'
> Err http://repository.maemo.org maemo1.1/non-free Release
>   Temporary failure resolving 'repository.maemo.org'
> Failed to fetch
> http://repository.maemo.org/dists/maemo1.1/free/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> Temporary failure resolving 'repository.maemo.org'
> 
> [snip]
> 
> [sbox-SDK_maemo_686: ~] > wget
> http://repository.maemo.org/dists/maemo1.1/free/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> --12:32:41--
> http://repository.maemo.org/dists/maemo1.1/free/binary-i386/Packages.gz
>            => `Packages.gz'
> Resolving repository.maemo.org... 195.27.240.158, 194.109.218.35
> Connecting to repository.maemo.org[195.27.240.158]:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 71,463 [text/plain]
> 
> 100%[==================================================================================================>] 71,463       184.95K/s
> 
> 12:32:42 (184.23 KB/s) - `Packages.gz' saved [71463/71463]
> 
> 
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Murray Cumming
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