Dave Vasilevsky wrote:
On Aug 5, 2005, at 12:05 AM, Dave Vasilevsky wrote:
Perhaps apt only gets confused if it doesn't see the .deb on your
disk at all, for example if you haven't run scanpackages in a while?
That would explain why I don't see this error much anymore
Ok, I did some test
On Aug 5, 2005, at 12:05 AM, Dave Vasilevsky wrote:
Perhaps apt only gets confused if it doesn't see the .deb on your
disk at all, for example if you haven't run scanpackages in a
while? That would explain why I don't see this error much anymore
Ok, I did some testing and my hunch was right
On Aug 4, 2005, at 7:12 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:
This one comes from the "Installed-Size:" field in the DEBIAN/
control file. apt-get compares package versions not only by their
version-revision number, but also by a VersionHash number which is
computed by taking into account several field
I think I am finally closing in on this old bug. At least I believe I
understand now the mechanism of the bug where "apt-get upgrade" wants to
install packages although they are already installed. The other one
where "fink -b install" doesn't want to realize that files are available
on the serv
On Jun 29, 2005, at 8:07 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
Using a local server for unstable debs, I have a long-standing
quibble with apt-get: It often doesn't understand that a package is
already installed and "apt-get dist-upgrade" downloads and installs
many packages, sometimes hundreds of pac
Using a local server for unstable debs, I have a long-standing quibble
with apt-get: It often doesn't understand that a package is already
installed and "apt-get dist-upgrade" downloads and installs many
packages, sometimes hundreds of packages, whose exact same version is
already installed. I
