On 2000-04-27 21:44:54 -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Eh? I am being very consistent, I want you to verify unquestionably that > the gzip file is the same as the ungziped version and different from the > one APT gets.
It is. $ zcat Packages.gz| md5sum 536c489bc48e417baaca510d7e056fb2 $ md5sum Packages 536c489bc48e417baaca510d7e056fb2 Packages (they're the ones from the local mirror) The client machine has one with a different size, so md5sum obviously gives a different sum. $ md5sum debian.topic.com.au_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages 62ec40f2e859a4bfd3b18d31894e035c debian.topic.com.au_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages ftp.au.debian.org finally has an update, so I can't verify that the one there yesterday which was the same size was the same contents. It's now the same as the local mirror. > You are *assuming* that the Packages.gz == Packages, there could be a > problem with the mirror. In years of using rsync I've never had a problem. Anyhow md5sum reckon they're the same. > You said you erased everything in /var/state/apt/lists - if this is so, > where did the old file come from??? You tell me and we'll both know ;) I'm just as confused about this one. > You could have a 'transparet proxy' in your way, that is becoming > increasingly common and frequently causes these sorts of problems. There's no transparent proxy on our network. We have a large squid cache connected to the upstream provider's, and a small apache+mod_proxy on this particular network that forwards to the squid one. These are used either manually (depending on the client system & browser) or with proxy.pac. Outside access to port 80 is firewalled. The proxy listed in apt.conf on the client is the mod_proxy one. > It is extrmely unlikely that this is an apt bug, the code to determine > newness is really trivial and relies on the server side. I assume you are > using Apache, so run apt-get update and look at the apache access log and > see what it says. It lists hits for the sites in my sources.list that are not the local cache: $ grep ^matty.tsa access_log | tail -18 matty.tsa - - [28/Apr/2000:13:57:03 +1000] "GET http://marillat.free.fr/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz HTTP/1.1" 304 0 matty.tsa - - [28/Apr/2000:13:57:03 +1000] "GET http://ftp.au.debian.org/linux/debian/dists/unstable/main/source/Sources.gz HTTP/1.1" 304 0 matty.tsa - - [28/Apr/2000:13:57:03 +1000] "GET http://ftp.au.debian.org/linux/debian/dists/unstable/main/source/Release HTTP/1.1" 404 241 matty.tsa - - [28/Apr/2000:13:57:03 +1000] "GET http://ftp.au.debian.org/linux/debian/dists/unstable/contrib/source/Sources.gz HTTP/1.1" 304 0 matty.tsa - - [28/Apr/2000:13:57:03 +1000] "GET http://www.rcpt.to/dists/pending/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz HTTP/1.1" 304 0 matty.tsa - - [28/Apr/2000:13:57:04 +1000] "GET http://ftp.au.debian.org/linux/debian/dists/unstable/contrib/source/Release HTTP/1.1" 404 244 matty.tsa - - [28/Apr/2000:13:57:04 +1000] "GET http://ftp.au.debian.org/linux/debian/dists/unstable/non-free/source/Sources.gz HTTP/1.1" 304 0 matty.tsa - - [28/Apr/2000:13:57:04 +1000] "GET http://www.rcpt.to/dists/pending/main/binary-i386/Release HTTP/1.1" 404 232 matty.tsa - - [28/Apr/2000:13:57:04 +1000] "GET http://marillat.free.fr/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Release HTTP/1.1" 404 233 matty.tsa - - [28/Apr/2000:13:57:04 +1000] "GET http://marillat.free.fr/dists/unstable/main/source/Sources.gz HTTP/1.1" 304 0 matty.tsa - - [28/Apr/2000:13:57:04 +1000] "GET http://ftp.au.debian.org/linux/debian/dists/unstable/non-free/source/Release HTTP/1.1" 404 245 matty.tsa - - [28/Apr/2000:13:57:04 +1000] "GET http://ftp.au.debian.org/linux/debian-non-US/dists/unstable/non-US/main/source/Sources.gz HTTP/1.1" 304 0 matty.tsa - - [28/Apr/2000:13:57:04 +1000] "GET http://ftp.au.debian.org/linux/debian-non-US/dists/unstable/non-US/main/source/Release HTTP/1.1" 304 0 matty.tsa - - [28/Apr/2000:13:57:04 +1000] "GET http://ftp.au.debian.org/linux/debian-non-US/dists/unstable/non-US/contrib/source/Sources.gz HTTP/1.1" 304 0 matty.tsa - - [28/Apr/2000:13:57:04 +1000] "GET http://ftp.au.debian.org/linux/debian-non-US/dists/unstable/non-US/contrib/source/Release HTTP/1.1" 304 0 matty.tsa - - [28/Apr/2000:13:57:04 +1000] "GET http://ftp.au.debian.org/linux/debian-non-US/dists/unstable/non-US/non-free/source/Sources.gz HTTP/1.1" 304 0 matty.tsa - - [28/Apr/2000:13:57:04 +1000] "GET http://ftp.au.debian.org/linux/debian-non-US/dists/unstable/non-US/non-free/source/Release HTTP/1.1" 304 0 matty.tsa - - [28/Apr/2000:13:57:05 +1000] "GET http://marillat.free.fr/dists/unstable/main/source/Release HTTP/1.1" 404 228 This is what I expect as I told apt.conf to go direct to debian.topic.com.au (which apt-gets hits after these) -- Matt
