Re: APT problem

2000-09-03 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:32:26PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 03:49:27PM -0700, Michael Meskes wrote: > > Could anyone please explain this to me? Did Corel do anything to their files > > that makes apt think it has to upgrade although its up-to-date? Or is this > > a bu

Re: APT problem

2000-09-02 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 1 Sep 2000, Alex Romosan wrote: > with 'apt-get source -b '. what's the point in having the > ability to download the source and recompile it automatically if the > next upgrade will wipe it out. if i choose to recompile a package, apt Mostly to compile versions that are not available for 'st

Re: APT problem

2000-09-02 Thread Alex Romosan
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:31:57PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > [Alex Romosan wrote:] > > > which are not on by default and then i have to put the packages on > > > hold because apt wants to get the remote ones. > > > > You have to do this anyhow, o

Re: APT problem

2000-09-02 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:31:57PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > [Alex Romosan wrote:] > > which are not on by default and then i have to put the packages on > > hold because apt wants to get the remote ones. > > You have to do this anyhow, otherwise the package will get upgraded > and you will l

Re: APT problem

2000-08-31 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 31 Aug 2000, Michael Meskes wrote: > > Which of course is correct. Not only the md5sum is different but also the > filesize. Wonder what they did with the source. It doesn't take much to create a different filesize. E.g. different timestamps in the archive will lead to different compressio

Re: APT problem

2000-08-31 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 02:47:15PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > What needs to be done is diff the record from the corel package file > against what is in their .deb and see if there is a difference in any > fields. Yup, md5sum and size. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael@Fam-Meskes.De Go SF 49

Re: APT problem

2000-08-31 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:57:38PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > It means the libc6 package you have installed has a different md5sum then > the package it finds on ftp.corel.com, and assumes that the version on > ftp.corel.com is a newer recompile. Strange logic, but that is how Which of cours

Re: APT problem

2000-08-31 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 06:36:34AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:37:52PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > (especially since this looks like just the well-established behavior of > >downloading changed packages..) > > I dont have a

Re: APT problem

2000-08-31 Thread Alex Romosan
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 30 Aug 2000, Alex Romosan wrote: > > > can we please, please reverse the behaviour, or at least make it > > configurable in /etc/apt/apt.conf, something like PreferLocal "yes". > > if there is such an option and i missed it, please point it out to

Re: APT problem

2000-08-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:37:52PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > (especially since this looks like just the well-established behavior of >downloading changed packages..) I dont have a example right now, but on my system aptitude will download the same package again and again. So in case it

Re: APT problem

2000-08-30 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 30 Aug 2000, Alex Romosan wrote: > > It means the libc6 package you have installed has a different md5sum then > > the package it finds on ftp.corel.com, and assumes that the version on No, this is not at all how it works.. > which are not on by default and then i have to put the packages on

Re: APT problem

2000-08-30 Thread Alex Romosan
Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It means the libc6 package you have installed has a different md5sum then > the package it finds on ftp.corel.com, and assumes that the version on > ftp.corel.com is a newer recompile. Strange logic, but that is how > libapt-pkg thinks. > this is so

Re: APT problem

2000-08-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:36:12PM -0400, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:32:26PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 03:49:27PM -0700, Michael Meskes wrote: > > > Could anyone please explain

Re: APT problem

2000-08-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:32:26PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 03:49:27PM -0700, Michael Meskes wrote: > > Could anyone please explain this to me? Did Corel do anything to their files > > that makes apt think it has to upgrade although its

Re: APT problem

2000-08-30 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Michael Meskes wrote: > Could anyone please explain this to me? Did Corel do anything to their files > that makes apt think it has to upgrade although its up-to-date? Or is this > a bug in apt? It means the libc6 package you have installed has a different md5sum then the package it find

Re: APT problem

2000-08-30 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Michael Meskes wrote: > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: > uppercase=bad) > ||/ NameVersionDescription > +++-===-==-===

Re: APT problem

2000-08-30 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > Could anyone please explain this to me? Did Corel do anything to their files > > that makes apt think it has to upgrade although its up-to-date? Or is this > > a bug in apt? > > I see this quite often, so it is a bug in the curret apt lib. aptitude

Re: APT problem

2000-08-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 03:49:27PM -0700, Michael Meskes wrote: > Could anyone please explain this to me? Did Corel do anything to their files > that makes apt think it has to upgrade although its up-to-date? Or is this > a bug in apt? I see this quite often, so it is a bug in the curret apt lib.

APT problem

2000-08-30 Thread Michael Meskes
I just tried to upgrade my Corel installation via the net and have some strange behaviour when using apt: feivel:~# dpkg -l libc6ΒΈ Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Sta

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-21 Thread Brian May
> "Andreas" == Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andreas> On 20 Mar 2000, Brian May wrote: >> I have to agree with Jason here, I was confused. In this case >> the error is generating by apt-get, in my case the error was >> generated by dpkg. >> >> I will take J

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-20 Thread Petr Cech
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 10:29:35AM +0100 , Andreas Tille wrote: > By the way. Shouldn't dpkg at least warn that md5 sums are wrong? It can't. dpkg doesn't know the md5sum of the .deb. Petr Cech -- Debian GNU/Linux maintainer - www.debian.{org,cz} [EMAIL

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On 20 Mar 2000, Brian May wrote: > I have to agree with Jason here, I was confused. In this case the > error is generating by apt-get, in my case the error was generated by > dpkg. > > I will take Jason's word for it that a deb file with bytes missing can > still be valid... OK, I take the word a

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > That doesn't mean anything, if the file was only 1 byte short chances are > it would still be entirely valid, dpkg -i would take it, apt would not due > to a size and md5 mismatch. Do you expect a file of size 1 byte to install and work without problem

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-20 Thread Brian May
> "Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jason> On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Andreas Tille wrote: >> output after failing to install 42 packages). I repeat: All >> packages were installable with dpkg -i after apt-get was unable >> to install Jason> That doesn't m

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-20 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Andreas Tille wrote: > output after failing to install 42 packages). I repeat: All packages > were installable with dpkg -i after apt-get was unable to install That doesn't mean anything, if the file was only 1 byte short chances are it would still be entirely valid, dpkg -

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On 18 Mar 2000, Brian May wrote: > > > I believe the original poster used dpkg -i to install the same copy > > that apt had downloaded - ie only one copy ever downloaded. > > Then dpkg should have failed to install it since it is a truncated file. No

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-18 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 18 Mar 2000, Brian May wrote: > I believe the original poster used dpkg -i to install the same copy > that apt had downloaded - ie only one copy ever downloaded. Then dpkg should have failed to install it since it is a truncated file. > Not sure about libtool, but have a look at bugs 60339

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
> "Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jason> Maybe in the time you downloaded the new file your mirror Jason> fixed itself. That error means the .deb it fetched was too Jason> small, ie still being downloaded. I believe the original poster used dpkg -i to insta

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-18 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 18 Mar 2000, Brian May wrote: > >> libtool 1.3.3-9 [177kB] Failed to fetch > >> > http://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/devel/libtool_1.3.3-9.deb > >> Size mismatch E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe try with > >> --fix-missing? >

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
> "Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jason> On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Andreas Tille wrote: >> Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done >> The following NEW packages will be installed: libtool 0 >> packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, paul wrote: > I had the same problem (and same output) when doing "apt-get upgrade" last > night. I used "apt-get clean" and "apt-get install man-db" before trying > "apt-get upgrade" again. The problem went away, so I thought it had been a > hardware problem on my end, b

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-16 Thread paul
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:18:24 +0530, Syed said: > > On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:17:54 +0100 (CET), Andreas Tille <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> said: > Andreas> > http://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/devel/libtool_1.3.3-9.deb > Andreas> Size mismatch E: Una

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-15 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Andreas Tille wrote: > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libtool > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13 not upgraded. > Need to get 177kB of archives. After unpacking 681k

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On 15 Mar 2000, Syed Khader Vali wrote: > I got the same error when I was doing an apt-get upgrade last > night. It was with man-db. But when I did an apt-get upgrade after > sometime again, it did not reget the package again, but installed with You are mory lucky than me because I tried the same

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-15 Thread Syed Khader Vali
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:17:54 +0100 (CET), Andreas Tille <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: Andreas> http://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/devel/libtool_1.3.3-9.deb Andreas> Size mismatch E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe try Andreas> with -

Apt-Problem

2000-03-15 Thread Andreas Tille
Hallo, since last week I have a problem when upgrading potato. In the dselect install process after obtaining the necessary packages I get mysterious "Size mismatch" for all packages. All the packages are stored /var/cache/apt/archives/partial and a `dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/*