Re: broken dependancies
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Philip Hands wrote:
>
>>The reason it worked for me was that a load of the files on the CD ended up
>>being empty, so they had no dependancies.
>
>OK...
>
>>Checking for empty .deb's might be worthwhile.
>
>I'll see what I can do for that. The md5 check should catch these, though.
>Arrgh, unless:
>
>>I don't know if this was because:
>>
>> a) they were empty on master
>
>this has happened.
>
>> b) my rsync failed
>> c) or they were broken during the slink_cd process
>>
>>unfortunately, I've since re-rsynced and destroyed some of the evidence.
>
>OK, no problem. I'm going to add a check for zero-size files now too...
Done. I've checked my mirror, and I don't have any zero-length files. But
that isn't the problem. I can now see from a look at the Packages file s
that I should be seeing the same error, but I'm not. Maybe it's a
pkg-order bug. I've been using 1.02, and I'm about to check with 1.04 from
potato.
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