Re: aptitude update "BADSIG" Error (getting silly now)

2008-04-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 03:34:12AM +, Nick Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I wrote: > > > Two further inferences are : > > >> (1) the aptitude code isn't checking the exit status from 'wget' (I >> assume it uses wget). >> >> (2) the wget operation is in fact asynchronous, and b

Re: aptitude update "BADSIG" Error (getting silly now)

2008-04-09 Thread Nick Boyce
I wrote: > Two further inferences are : > (1) the aptitude code isn't checking the exit status from 'wget' (I assume it uses wget). (2) the wget operation is in fact asynchronous, and by the time I rerun - 5 seconds later - the wget for 'Release' has by then completed. This is just a wild gu

Re: aptitude update "BADSIG" Error (getting silly now)

2008-04-09 Thread Nick Boyce
Nick Boyce wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:29:47 +, Nick Boyce wrote: Just wondering whether anyone here understands the cause of the "BADSIG" error from "aptitude update" [...] I'm inclined to agree with you about our proxy having a caching problem, and I like yo

Re: aptitude update "BADSIG" Error (getting silly now)

2008-03-26 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 26 Mar at 1:22 Nick Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Andrei Popescu wrote: [snip] > > > P.S. Recently I ran apt-spy. It turned out ftp.at.debian.org is the best > > mirror for me. ftp.ro.debian.org didn't even make the top 5. > > Good tip - I'll try that - our co

Re: aptitude update "BADSIG" Error (getting silly now)

2008-03-25 Thread Nick Boyce
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:29:47 +, Nick Boyce wrote: Just wondering whether anyone here understands the cause of the "BADSIG" error from "aptitude update" [...] The usual suggested causes involve Debian mirrors in an inconsistent state while updating, broken package

Re: aptitude update "BADSIG" Error (getting silly now)

2008-03-25 Thread Nick Boyce
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:29:47AM +, Nick Boyce wrote: Just wondering whether anyone here understands the cause of the "BADSIG" error from "aptitude update" [...] Yes, I used to get this a lot with ftp.ro.debian.org. I switched to using ftp.at.debian.org and got rid

Re: aptitude update "BADSIG" Error (getting silly now)

2008-03-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:29:47 +, Nick Boyce wrote: > Just wondering whether anyone here understands the cause of the "BADSIG" > error from "aptitude update", which googling reveals has been > experienced by quite a few people : > http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2006/08/msg00100.html

Re: aptitude update "BADSIG" Error (getting silly now)

2008-03-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:29:47AM +, Nick Boyce wrote: > Just wondering whether anyone here understands the cause of the "BADSIG" > error from "aptitude update", which googling reveals has been > experienced by quite a few people : > http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2006/08/msg00100.htm