Apt on F8 appears to be broken

[Nigel Henry]

Yum is working ok on F8, but Apt that I prefer to use, appears to be broken on 
F8. See below.

# apt-get update

/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repodata_repomd.xml:20: 
parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: link line 8 and head
  </head>
         ^
/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repodata_repomd.xml:31: 
parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: img line 31 and a
tic/images/banners/f8-banner-animation.gif" alt="Fedora 8 Werewolf is 
here!"></a
                                                                               ^
/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repodata_repomd.xml:32: 
parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: a line 31 and div
    </div>
          ^
/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repodata_repomd.xml:55: 
parser error : Specification mandate value for attribute selected
    <option value="en" selected>en</option>
                               ^
/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repodata_repomd.xml:66: 
parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: input line 65 and div
        </div>
              ^
/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repodata_repomd.xml:67: 
parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: div line 49 and form
      </form>
             ^
/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repodata_repomd.xml:68: 
parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: form line 48 and div
    </div>
          ^
/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repodata_repomd.xml:74: 
parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: img line 74 and a
screen.png"><img src="./static/images/screenshot-1.png" alt="F8 
Screenshot"></a>
                                                                               ^
/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repodata_repomd.xml:74: 
parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: a line 74 and li
en.png"><img src="./static/images/screenshot-1.png" alt="F8 
Screenshot"></a></li
                                                                               ^
/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repodata_repomd.xml:75: 
parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: img line 75 and a
screen.png"><img src="./static/images/screenshot-2.png" alt="F8 
Screenshot"></a>
                                                                               ^
/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repodata_repomd.xml:75: 
parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: a line 75 and li
en.png"><img src="./static/images/screenshot-2.png" alt="F8 
Screenshot"></a></li
                                                                               ^
/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repodata_repomd.xml:76: 
parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: img line 76 and a
esktop.png"><img src="./static/images/screenshot-3.png" alt="F8 
Screenshot"></a>
                                                                               ^
/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repodata_repomd.xml:76: 
parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: a line 76 and li
op.png"><img src="./static/images/screenshot-3.png" alt="F8 
Screenshot"></a></li
                                                                               ^
/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repodata_repomd.xml:77: 
parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: li line 76 and ul
      </ul>
           ^
/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repodata_repomd.xml:79: 
parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: li line 75 and div
    </div><p>
          ^
/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repodata_repomd.xml:86: 
parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: li line 74 and div
      </div>
            ^
/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repodata_repomd.xml:87: 
parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: ul line 73 and div
    </div>
          ^
/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repodata_repomd.xml:92: 
parser error : Entity 'copy' not defined
      Copyright © 2007 Red Hat, Inc. and others.  All Rights Reserved.  
Ple
                      ^
/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repodata_repomd.xml:105: 
parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: div line 72 and body
  </body>
         ^
/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repodata_repomd.xml:106: 
parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: div line 71 and html
</html>
       ^
/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repodata_repomd.xml:106: 
parser error : Premature end of data in tag div line 30
</html>
       ^
/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repodata_repomd.xml:106: 
parser error : Premature end of data in tag div line 29
</html>
       ^
/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repodata_repomd.xml:106: 
parser error : Premature end of data in tag div line 22
</html>
       ^
/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repodata_repomd.xml:106: 
parser error : Premature end of data in tag body line 21
</html>
       ^
/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repodata_repomd.xml:106: 
parser error : Premature end of data in tag link line 7
</html>
       ^
/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repodata_repomd.xml:106: 
parser error : Premature end of data in tag head line 5
</html>
       ^
/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repodata_repomd.xml:106: 
parser error : Premature end of data in tag html line 2
</html>
       ^
E: Could not open metadata file 
'/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repodata_repomd.xml'
E: Unable to lock the list directory



There's a bit more output from when I first installed Apt, and Synaptic, then 
ran apt-get update for the first time. See below.

# apt-get update
Get:1 http://download.fedora.redhat.com fedora/linux/8/i386/os/ repomd.xml 
[418$
86% [1 repomd.xml 3632/4184B 
86%]/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_$
  </head>
         ^
/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_8_i386_os_repoda$
tic/images/banners/f8-banner-animation.gif" alt="Fedora 8 Werewolf is 
here!"></a
And so on, as the first bunch of output above.

If anyone else is using Apt, or would like to try it, I would appreciate 
feedback before I file a bugreport on Apt.

Nigel.