apt-get size mismatch: apt/3.0/ base/release incorrect?

[Benjamin Warfield]

I saw in the archives that a couple of other people had this problem 
earlier this month, but didn't see any resolution to it--when I run 
apt-get upgrade (on a YDL more-or-less 3.0 system), I get the 
following set of messages:

Get:1 ftp://distro.ibiblio.org apt/3.0/update pkglist [228kB]
Get:2 ftp://distro.ibiblio.org apt/3.0/update release [125B]
Get:3 ftp://distro.ibiblio.org apt/3.0/update srclist [17.7kB]
Fetched 246kB in 9s (25.7kB/s)
Failed to fetch 
ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/yellowdog/apt/3.0/base/pkglist.update 
Size mismatch
Failed to fetch 
ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/yellowdog/apt/3.0/base/srclist.update 
Size mismatch
Reading Package Lists... Done
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or 
old ones used instead.


I am not by any means an expert in how apt works on the server side, 
but it seems to me that this is a mismatch between the size reported 
for pkglist.update and srclist.update in the "release" file (1951561 
bytes and 69940 bytes, respectively) and the actual size of the files 
in question (rather larger).  Which, since "pkglist.update" was last 
updated some three months later than "release" (04-Dec-2003 vs 
18-Dec-2003), seems not implausible.  Can anybody tell me if this is 
a correct diagnosis of the situation, and if so what (if anything) I 
should do about it?

Thanks,

	Ben Warfield.