Re: apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 09:50:21PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> The entires in Packages files and those in the .deb must match exactly
> (ie byte for byte), otherwise it sees them as different packages. Since
> dpkg manipulates the status file and only has information from the .deb
> there is no way to force a particular contents into the status file.
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.
What is the problem here?
--
Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>
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