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

[Prasenjit Kapat]

Sorry, a bit of oversight on my part. My reply to the "Package
authentication problem" thread should've been more appropriate here:

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Gad Abraham
<gabraham at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> 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?

I think the repeated use of apt-key del and apt-key add should work
(see the reply to the above mentioned thread). I stick to a weekly (at
most) update/upgrade schedule, so not so much of a trouble; but yeah,
a fix would be welcome...

Again, thanks to Dirk et al for the cran2deb repo!
-- 
Prasenjit