Daniel Burrows schrieb:
> > You're right that the md5sums are different. Here the md5sums I get if > I download the .debs and run "md5sum" on them: > > oldstable: 90f88e5cb63fbc4da70b30fd57bc623b > oldstable: b320ca25662e5621e6ddc8cad6a1343f > oldstable: ab99593efdf397078f11d9c37dd218a1 > stable: cf0078ab0c573281d96411894d807469 > > The multiple occurrences of "oldstable" are from different mirrors > that I tried. Your archive (ftp.de) has a package whose md5sum matches > the md5sum of its Packages file, so that should be OK. > > I wonder if apt is reusing a file in its cache. Have you tried > running apt-cache clean and then installing "time"? After you do that, > what's the md5sum of /var/cache/apt/archives/time_1.7-21_amd64.deb? Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main time 1.7-21 [33.2kB] cf0078ab0c573281d96411894d807469 /var/cache/apt/archives/time_1.7-21_amd64.deb > Does it change if you clean the cache and install time again? No, it is the same. >> If I understand this correctly, in the above output the installed >> version should have an md5sum and this would identify the installed >> version with the version in der Package file? So the question would be, >> why is apt-get not writing the installed versions md5 into the status db? > > apt has never done well with situations where there are multiple > versions of a single package. Personally, I would remove the oldstable > line. Ups. This fixes he behavior. At the moment I still need a package from oldstable. This is why I have the oldstable line. I'll try to get rid of if. > I could reassign this to apt if you like. I thought this was already > reported multiple times (it's certainly well-known), but I can't find > the duplicates in the bug list. #351056 is close, but that turned out > to be a situation where the md5sums were identical after all. Well, it looks like it is really problem of apt. So please reassing. Thanks anyway for your help. Christoph -- ============================================================================ Christoph Martin, Leiter der EDV der Verwaltung, Uni-Mainz, Germany Internet-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telefon: +49-6131-3926337 Fax: +49-6131-3922856
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