[maemo-developers] Unable to update targets on Maemo 3.1 "bora" via "apt-get update" after sdk installation

[From: javainio at cc.jyu.fi]

Hi,

I tried to install Maemo bora SDK to my host system (Debian testing ~ lenny).

The scratchbox installation went ok, but the maemo sdk installation script
failed to update both targets at the end of the installation. And when
trying manually to run 'apt-get update' on either of the targets I got the
same complaints about not being able to resolve repositories:

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...
Err http://repository.maemo.org bora/free Release
  Could not resolve 'repository.maemo.org'
Failed to fetch
http://repository.maemo.org/dists/bora/free/binary-armel/Packages.gz 
Could not resolve 'repository.maemo.org'
...
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I have "googled" to find a solution to this problem, and I found couple
other posts from people having same kind of problems. My symptoms are
exactly same:

- I'm able do download stuff using directly the wget to do the job, for
example command '[sbox-SDK_ARMEL: ~] > wget
http://repository.maemo.org/dists/bora/free/binary-armel/Packages.gz'
worked perfectly ok.

- I have also checked the /etc/nsswitch.conf on both targets to contain
the line
'hosts:      files dns'

- I have added to the /etc/resolv.conf (again in both targets) the
following definitions (copied from my host system)

nameserver 172.16.0.1 (my local network name server)
nameserver 193.229.0.40 (my isp name server)

But neither of above changes did make the apt-get to work.

Any ideas what might be wrong here?

Many thanks!

br. Jan-Petter