Re: [parisc-linux] glibc update is broken in testing?
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 07:10:10PM -0600, Grant Grundler wrote:
> No ldconfig. Matthew and I discussed this offline.
> Tried to unpack the .deb by hand and install the files
> but found the root cause of the problem:
>
> /target # tar xzf data.tar.gz
> tar: Invalid tar magic
> /target # md5sum var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-12_hppa.deb
> a029b01f3345af2af401620118d39bf1 var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-12_hppa.deb
>
> which doesn't match the md5sum from either a freshly downloaded glibc .deb
> from mirrors.kernel.org or from HP internal debian mirror that I run.
>
> Seems the package integrity checking has a bug.
That's a *critical* bug. Please say you kept that deb around? We can use
it in a chroot to find the bug in the integrity checking.
I'd really like to know how that trashed your system.
c.
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