Re: [Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be: Re: Unpacking ad infinitum]
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> [23:27:24]~# apt-get upgrade -u
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages have been kept back
> gtk-doc-tools latex2html mailtools cdlabelgen perl perl-debug libdbi-perl
> acct libhtml-parser-perl perl-base libgnome-perl libnet-telnet-perl
> perl-suid info2www libtimedate-perl dpkg-dev libnet-perl libmime-base64-perl
> fvwm-common sgml-data libwww-perl perlmagick weblint
> The following packages will be upgraded
> doc-linux-text doc-linux-html
The problem here is that the version of doc-linux-text you have in .deb is
not exactly the same as the version of doc-linux-text that is described by
the package file - oddly they have exactly the same size. You should erase
those two .debs from /var/cache/apt/archives, re-download them and then
APT will stop complaining.
Someone is uploading different versions of the same package without
changing the version number - APT can detect this for most cases, but
can't tell that the .deb it has downloaded isn't the right .deb unless the
size differs as well.
Jason
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