Re: mini-dinstall possibly leading to lots of 'Failed to fetch http://xyx/abd_1.2-3.deb Size mismatch'

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> writes:

> We are running a service that automatically converts the 2300+ R packages
> from CRAN (http://cran.r-project.org) into Debian binaries for both amd64 and
> i386 on testing. This is joint work with Charles Blundell (CC'ed), which we
> started when it was his GSoC 2008 gig. We use a Xen instance which is running
> testing that is being made available to us at WU Vienna.
>
> Every now and then mini-dinstall throws us a curve ball. Right now I am
> seeing the errors below on my testing box (which is otherwise current). 
>
> What can we do to fix the index file? I have removed Packages*, Release*,
> Sources*, the Berkeley db file testing.db and others but I can't seem to find
> a reliable fix. I also run apt-cacher-ng locally but that does not seem to be
> the issue as we also get mismatches on the build machine itself which is not
> running any caches.
>
> Any hints? We looked into replacing mini-dinstall with reprepro. Is that the
> best solution?  Are there better reference docs that the one or two hits
> Google finds?
>
> I can supply more details if that helped.
>
> Many thanks,  Dirk

Maybe just avoid the problem by using reprepro.

MfG
        Goswin