On 2000-04-27 01:46:05 -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Sounds to me like your mirror is messed up, APT downloads the .gz files, > not the uncompressed ones so you should be looking at that.
Well the local /var/state/apt/lists/ keeps it uncompressed, I can't really show that the files are different if I quote one compressed and the other uncompressed now, can I? > Certianly, it is not possible for APT to create a package file out of thin > air that is yesterdays, whatever is on your mirror is what it is going to > download. Well whatever is on the mirror is what it _didn't_ download, hence the bug report! :-) Let me phrase this again. Local mirror: -rw-r--r-- 1 aptp aptp 3197648 Apr 27 05:42 Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 aptp aptp 887199 Apr 27 05:42 Packages.gz ftp1.us.debian.org (DNS giving the midco.net site): -rw-r--r-- 1 101 101 3197648 Apr 26 19:42 Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 101 101 887199 Apr 27 00:32 Packages.gz (funnily enough, the same files, as the local mirror uses rsync) /var/state/apt/lists AFTER an apt-get update -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3192837 Apr 27 10:51 /var/state/apt/lists/debian.topic.com.au_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages (this is the size of Packages from Apr 24, 3 days ago) ftp.au.debian.org: -rw-r--r-- 1 mirror mirror 3192837 Apr 24 19:22 Packages Now, for some reason, it's getting this old file even though the local mirror, referenced in sources.list as the ONLY debian distribution package site, contains a newer version. Just to speculate, the ftp.au.debian.org site still has a 3-day-old mirror. It's listed as a deb-src. Perhaps apt-get refuses to get the new Packages in case src and binary get out of sync? -- Matt
