On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Luke Diamand wrote: > If you run apt-get dist-upgrade with the -m (--ignore-missing) option, this > option is ignored.
Except the file isn't missing! > My situation: I have a CD with a broken xemacs20_common package. So in > order to get past this (I'm at the wrong end of a 33.6k modem:-() I > said: > % apt-get -m dist-upgrade > > But after finding that xemacs20_common... is broken, it always gives an error > message and dies. > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error > dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 That is a corrupted file, APT does not detect corruptd files on the local file system. This is not a bug. Jason
