Re: MD5Sum mismatch
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 11:00 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> apt-get update is showing:
>
> Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 MD5Sum mismatch
> Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/source/Sources.bz2 MD5Sum mismatch
> Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/non-free/source/Sources.bz2 MD5Sum mismatch
>
> The md5sum mismatch seems misleading, since it's really just failing
> to fetch those files.
>
> My question:
>
> Have the unstable sources changed? If so, where should I have seen
> this announcement -- or found it on the Debian site?
Typically this is caused by an update in progress on the particular hist
you have just contacted. Please realize there are a plethora of hosts
masquerading as http.us.debian.org. All mirrors of ftp.debian.org.
> Or is this a temporary problem?
Bingo, and typically only on the host you happen to contact.
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
Not much different from my set.
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