[R-sig-Debian] cran2deb Packages.bz2 Hash Sum mismatch

[Gad Abraham]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 26 May 2010 at 11:28, Gad Abraham wrote:
> | Recently apt-get update has to started to complain:
> |
> | ...
> | Hit http://debian.cran.r-project.org testing/ Release
> | Get:1 http://debian.cran.r-project.org testing/ Packages [515kB]
> | Fetched 1B in 3s (0B/s)
> | W: Failed to fetch
> | http://debian.cran.r-project.org/cran2deb/debian-amd64/testing/Packages.bz2
> |  Hash Sum mismatch
> |
> | My /etc/apt/sources contains:
> | deb http://debian.cran.r-project.org/cran2deb/debian-amd64 testing/
> |
> | Any idea?
>
> Yes, sorry about that.
>
> I just asked for advice on debian-devel and it appears to be a "feature" of
> the mini-dinstall package we use to create the archive.
>
> The general recommendation seems to be that one should switch to the reprepro
> package for archive creation which Charles and I plan to do that.  But it is
> not yet clear when we will have time to do so.
>

Thanks for your help and for cran2deb.

Does this mean cran2deb debian64 will be broken for the near future?

-- 
Gad Abraham
PhD Student, Dept. CSSE and NICTA
The University of Melbourne
Parkville 3010, Victoria, Australia
email: gabraham at csse.unimelb.edu.au
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