Re: apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Brian May wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:19:13PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > apt-get knows that it has to get the file from:
> > >
> > > deb http://snoopy.apana.org.au/~ftp/debian woody main
> > >
> > > and the md5sum of the Packages file from this source, as quoted
> > > before matches exactly.
> >
> > Er, the md5sum of the deb is not kept by dpkg after you install a .deb.
> This MD5sum matches that of the file on the server, exactly:
Just ignore the md5sum, it isn't (can't be!) used for anything like this.
If you do apt-cache show kerberos4kth1 after installing and look very
carefully you will see that the two listed 1.1-11-2 stanzas are subtly
different. The problem is that your package file does not
accurately reflect the contents of the .deb. That is all.
Jason
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