Just adding to my last post: I've now tried this with multiple debian download mirrors and the same thing happens with all of them: corrupt packages on the .gz and the non compressed versions. Matthew On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 11:43:10AM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Hi People, > > I've just been trying out the bf 3.0.14 and have been having a few > problems: > > Whenever the boot-floppies make release script trys to grab the > packages.gz file, it does so and then declares it corrupt. It then > gets the Packages file (non compressed version) and then declares > that too corrupt. Now I've not been around when this bit actually > takes place, so I can't work out whether it is gzip that is declaring > it corrupt or some component of dpkg. The fact that it happens on the > non compressed version aswell would suggest that it's part of dpkg > (or whatever tries to analyze the package). > > Has anyone else come across this? And if so is there a solution? Should > I be using the Sid version of dselect/dpkg/apt or should the woody > suffice? > > Thanks for your time, > > Matthew > > -- > > Matthew Sackman > Nottingham, > ENGLAND >
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