severity 238560 normal tags 238560 - security tags 238560 unreproducible thanks
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 12:45:42PM -0500, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 0.5.23 > Severity: important > Tags: security sid > > Sometimes, I get an MD5Sum mismatch when trying to install a package > using apt-get: > > witch:/tmp# apt-get install mozilla-firefox > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following NEW packages will be installed: > mozilla-firefox > 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 10.4MB of archives. > After unpacking 30.5MB of additional disk space will be used. > Get:1 ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main mozilla-firefox 0.8-4 [10.4MB] > Fetched 10.4MB in 32s (316kB/s) > Failed to fetch > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox_0.8-4_i386.deb > MD5Sum mismatch > E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with > --fix-missing? > > Comparing the real MD5Sum of the file > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox_0.8-4_i386.deb > with the MD5Sum listed in Packages shows that they are identical. > > Thus, there appears to be a bug witin apt-get itself. It seems unlikely that apt is not calculating the md5sum correctly (I have the same version of mozilla-firefox successfully downloaded and installed here). Try switching from ftp to http and see if that makes a difference. -- - mdz
