On 2020-08-25 at 05:34, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Sat, 2020-08-15 at 07:29:42 -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
>> During a routine 'apt-get dist-upgrade' against testing, I got (in >> part): <snip> >> After this, a run of 'apt-get -f install' did not appear to act on >> the locales-all package, and did not fail. A subsequent repeat of >> the dist-upgrade command saw locales-all as the only package >> available to be upgraded, and proceeding let it upgrade without a >> repeat of the error. > > Did the subsequent upgrade download the package again? If so the > local one could have been damaged, but a redownload would have fixed > that. I do not recall noticing it doing so, but I cannot swear that it didn't. Unfortunately, I no longer have access to the relevant backscroll to check, and the only log file which looks as if it should perhaps record such (/var/log/apt/term.log) seems in fact to only record the terminal output from after the download process would have completed. > If you do not have access to the supposedly "faulty" package as it > was just after the dpkg error, then I'm not sure there is much we can > do at this point though. :/ Quite possibly not. I'll keep that thought in mind in case a similar problem recurs at some later point, but there may indeed not be anything we can do about it now. > I'm not sure if this could be related to some recent fixes in apt > where it previously was not fully fetching all data from remote > sites. > > What I can do though, is add a bit more information to the error > message, such as the .deb name and size, so that if the file had been > truncated then we'd be able to immediately know. Ideally a checksum > would also be printed but hmmm. That could indeed be useful in the event of a recurrence. Regardless, I do appreciate the attention you're giving to this! -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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