Sorry, a bit of oversight on my part. My reply to the "Package authentication problem" thread should've been more appropriate here:
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Gad Abraham <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 26 May 2010 at 11:28, Gad Abraham wrote: >> | Recently apt-get update has to started to complain: >> | >> | ... >> | Hit http://debian.cran.r-project.org testing/ Release >> | Get:1 http://debian.cran.r-project.org testing/ Packages [515kB] >> | Fetched 1B in 3s (0B/s) >> | W: Failed to fetch >> | http://debian.cran.r-project.org/cran2deb/debian-amd64/testing/Packages.bz2 >> | Hash Sum mismatch >> | >> | My /etc/apt/sources contains: >> | deb http://debian.cran.r-project.org/cran2deb/debian-amd64 testing/ >> | >> | Any idea? >> >> Yes, sorry about that. >> >> I just asked for advice on debian-devel and it appears to be a "feature" of >> the mini-dinstall package we use to create the archive. >> >> The general recommendation seems to be that one should switch to the reprepro >> package for archive creation which Charles and I plan to do that. But it is >> not yet clear when we will have time to do so. >> > > Thanks for your help and for cran2deb. > > Does this mean cran2deb debian64 will be broken for the near future? I think the repeated use of apt-key del and apt-key add should work (see the reply to the above mentioned thread). I stick to a weekly (at most) update/upgrade schedule, so not so much of a trouble; but yeah, a fix would be welcome... Again, thanks to Dirk et al for the cran2deb repo! -- Prasenjit _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian

