Re: aptitude update BADSIG Error (getting silly now)

2008-04-09 Thread Nick Boyce
Nick Boyce wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:29:47 +, Nick Boyce wrote: Just wondering whether anyone here understands the cause of the BADSIG error from aptitude update [...] I'm inclined to agree with you about our proxy having a caching problem, and I like your

Re: aptitude update BADSIG Error (getting silly now)

2008-04-09 Thread Nick Boyce
I wrote: Two further inferences are : (1) the aptitude code isn't checking the exit status from 'wget' (I assume it uses wget). (2) the wget operation is in fact asynchronous, and by the time I rerun - 5 seconds later - the wget for 'Release' has by then completed. This is just a wild

Re: aptitude update BADSIG Error (getting silly now)

2008-04-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 03:34:12AM +, Nick Boyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I wrote: Two further inferences are : (1) the aptitude code isn't checking the exit status from 'wget' (I assume it uses wget). (2) the wget operation is in fact asynchronous, and by the time I

Re: aptitude update BADSIG Error (getting silly now)

2008-03-26 Thread Nick Boyce
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:29:47 +, Nick Boyce wrote: Just wondering whether anyone here understands the cause of the BADSIG error from aptitude update [...] The usual suggested causes involve Debian mirrors in an inconsistent state while updating, broken packages,

Re: aptitude update BADSIG Error (getting silly now)

2008-03-26 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 26 Mar at 1:22 Nick Boyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrei Popescu wrote: [snip] P.S. Recently I ran apt-spy. It turned out ftp.at.debian.org is the best mirror for me. ftp.ro.debian.org didn't even make the top 5. Good tip - I'll try that - our company's

Re: aptitude update BADSIG Error (getting silly now)

2008-03-25 Thread Nick Boyce
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:29:47AM +, Nick Boyce wrote: Just wondering whether anyone here understands the cause of the BADSIG error from aptitude update [...] Yes, I used to get this a lot with ftp.ro.debian.org. I switched to using ftp.at.debian.org and got rid of

Re: aptitude update BADSIG Error (getting silly now)

2008-03-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:29:47AM +, Nick Boyce wrote: Just wondering whether anyone here understands the cause of the BADSIG error from aptitude update, which googling reveals has been experienced by quite a few people : http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2006/08/msg00100.html

Re: aptitude update BADSIG Error (getting silly now)

2008-03-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:29:47 +, Nick Boyce wrote: Just wondering whether anyone here understands the cause of the BADSIG error from aptitude update, which googling reveals has been experienced by quite a few people : http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2006/08/msg00100.html

aptitude update BADSIG Error (getting silly now)

2008-03-23 Thread Nick Boyce
Just wondering whether anyone here understands the cause of the BADSIG error from aptitude update, which googling reveals has been experienced by quite a few people : http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2006/08/msg00100.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/12/msg00227.html