Re: APT problem
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:36:12PM -0400, Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu> was heard to say:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:32:26PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels <lists@lina.inka.de> 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 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 is
> > even more vulnerable to this... at least the cache does work so u d/l it
> > only once.
>
> Any idea what makes aptitude in particular more vulnerable? I can toss
> it into the TODO queue. [1]
(especially since this looks like just the well-established behavior of
downloading changed packages..)
Daniel
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