Re: Bug#31054: apt-get ignores '-m option (--ignore-missing)
On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Luke Diamand wrote:
> If you run apt-get dist-upgrade with the -m (--ignore-missing) option, this
> option is ignored.
Except the file isn't missing!
> My situation: I have a CD with a broken xemacs20_common package. So in
> order to get past this (I'm at the wrong end of a 33.6k modem:-() I
> said:
> % apt-get -m dist-upgrade
>
> But after finding that xemacs20_common... is broken, it always gives an error
> message and dies.
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error
> dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1
That is a corrupted file, APT does not detect corruptd files on the local
file system. This is not a bug.
Jason
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