[R-sig-Debian] Some troubles with signatures and packages

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 28 September 2010 at 14:53, Lorenzo Isella wrote:
| Dear All,
| I am running debian testing on a i386 machine. I added cran2deb for
| testing by adding this line to my repository list
| 
| # CRAN
| deb http://debian.cran.r-project.org/cran2deb/debian-i386/ testing/
| 
| However, I am experiencing a few problems. See for instance
| 
| ~/Downloads$ sudo apt-get update
| Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing Release.gpg
| Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ testing/main Translation-en
| Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ testing/main Translation-en_US
| Ign http://debian.cran.r-project.org testing/ Release.gpg
| Hit http://ftp.ch.debian.org testing Release.gpg
| Ign http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ testing/contrib Translation-en
| Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing Release
| Ign http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ testing/contrib Translation-en_US
| Ign http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ testing/main Translation-en
| Ign http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ testing/main Translation-en_US
| Ign http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ testing/non-free Translation-en
| Ign http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ testing/non-free Translation-en_US
| Hit http://ftp.ch.debian.org testing Release
| Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/main i386 Packages/DiffIndex
| Ign http://debian.cran.r-project.org/cran2deb/debian-i386/ testing/
| Translation-en
| Ign http://download.skype.com stable Release.gpg
| Hit http://ftp.ch.debian.org testing/main Sources/DiffIndex
| Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release.gpg
| Ign http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates/contrib Translation-en
| Ign http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates/contrib Translation-en_US
| Ign http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates/main Translation-en
| Ign http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates/main Translation-en_US
| Ign http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates/non-free Translation-en
| Ign http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates/non-free Translation-en_US
| Ign http://debian.cran.r-project.org/cran2deb/debian-i386/ testing/
| Translation-en_US
| Get:1 http://debian.cran.r-project.org testing/ Release [1,533B]
| Ign http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable/non-free Translation-en
| Ign http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable/non-free
| Translation-en_US
| Hit http://ftp.ch.debian.org testing/non-free Sources/DiffIndex
| Hit http://ftp.ch.debian.org testing/contrib Sources/DiffIndex
| Hit http://ftp.ch.debian.org testing/main i386 Packages/DiffIndex
| Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release
| Hit http://ftp.ch.debian.org testing/contrib i386 Packages/DiffIndex
| Hit http://ftp.ch.debian.org testing/non-free i386 Packages/DiffIndex
| Ign http://debian.cran.r-project.org testing/ Packages/DiffIndex
| Ign http://download.skype.com stable Release
| Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Sources
| Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Sources
| Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Sources
| Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main i386 Packages
| Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib i386 Packages
| Ign http://download.skype.com stable/non-free i386 Packages/DiffIndex
| Hit http://debian.cran.r-project.org testing/ Packages
| Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free i386 Packages
| Hit http://download.skype.com stable/non-free i386 Packages
| Fetched 1B in 1s (1B/s)
| Reading package lists... Done
| ~/Downloads$ sudo apt-get install r-cran-bb
| Reading package lists... Done
| Building dependency tree
| Reading state information... Done
| The following extra packages will be installed:
|   r-cran-numderiv
| The following NEW packages will be installed:
|   r-cran-bb r-cran-numderiv
| 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
| Need to get 441kB/506kB of archives.
| After this operation, 1,069kB of additional disk space will be used.
| Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
| WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
|   r-cran-numderiv r-cran-bb
| Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
| Get:1 http://debian.cran.r-project.org/cran2deb/debian-i386/ testing/
| r-cran-bb 2010.4-1-1cran1 [441kB]
| Fetched 1B in 0s (6B/s)
| Failed to fetch
| http://debian.cran.r-project.org/cran2deb/debian-i386/testing/r-cran-bb_2010.4-1-1cran1_all.deb
|  Size mismatch
| E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with
| --fix-missing?

That particular file appears to corrupt. This happens for a few, and we
should note that the cran2deb service is not currently functioning at 100%.

This has nothing to do with keys.

Dirk
 

| So it looks like I did not import the right key (well, I actually had
| a look at http://debian.cran.r-project.org/ but then realized that I
| had imported the key for main; where is the one for testing?).
| I then managed to install cran-bb using the --fix-missing suggestion,
| but I have no clue at what is going on.
| Any suggestion is appreciated.
| Cheers
| 
| Lorenzo
| 
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