On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 02:28:29AM +0000, Nick wrote: > While I'm looking at aptitude, it seems worth mentioning a problem I've > been seeing since Etch was released: that is 'aptitude update' downloads > the updated package lists (or not, if they haven't changed), and then > reports that the GPG signature on something (that is not clearly > identified) is invalid. On every occasion, the solution is simply to > rerun 'aptitude update', which then completes successfully. > > I remember seeing someone post (can't find it now) that they thought > this was due to an incorrect/inconsistent repository, and that the rerun > works because it picks up a different repository machine in some kind of > DNS round-robin server cluster. > > If that's the case, why hasn't the repository error been corrected by now ? [snip aptitude output] > Anyone got any clues about this ? > Does anyone else see the syndrome ? I've seen a lot of these the last few months with ftp.ro.debian.org Because the server was down for a few days I switched to ftp.at.debian.org and all my problems are gone. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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