Re: apt-get may accept inconsistent data

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

Stefan Tichy <dlist@pi4tel.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> the problem may be the result of proxy usage or even improper proxy
> configuration, but apt-get should complain if something is wrong.
>
> Etch is installed on the system and "apt-get update" did fetch
> Release and Release.gpg from security.debian.org (modification date
> 2008-05-02). The packages file is still an old version from 2008-04-27.
>
> "OK   http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages"
> is part of the output. Just OK, not fetched, but this is no reason
> to assume that some error has occured.
>
> Did I miss something, should I check apt config or is this a bug?
>
> Kind regards

Does it complain about the md5sum/size of the file?

The Release file could have been regenerated for e.g. a contrib
package without main changing. So the date does not neccesarily mean
anything.

MfG
        Goswin