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

[Lorenzo Isella]

On 28 September 2010 17:12, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> 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
>


Hi Dirk,
Thanks for your reply which clarifies the issue.
Nevertheless, where am I to find the key for cran2deb for debian testing?
And another question (without even the shade of implied criticism): I
appreciate that cran2deb is undergoing some major revision and is not
completely up and running, but as a user do I simply have to wait or
will I also have to change the cran2deb repo in my source list in the
future?
Cheers

Lorenzo


>
> | 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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