Re: apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Brian May wrote:
> 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.
Er, the md5sum of the deb is not kept by dpkg after you install a .deb.
Jason
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