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

[miKeL a.k.a.mc2]

I had some problems with mismatch sizes with yum and apt-get

now I use yum only=20

use de UK mirrors, there is a post here about it.

I hope this helps


On dt, 2004-01-20 at 04:56, Benjamin Warfield wrote:
> I saw in the archives that a couple of other people had this problem=20
> earlier this month, but didn't see any resolution to it--when I run=20
> apt-get upgrade (on a YDL more-or-less 3.0 system), I get the=20
> following set of messages:
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> 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=20
> ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/yellowdog/apt/3.0/base/p=
kglist.update
> Size mismatch
> Failed to fetch=20
> ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/yellowdog/apt/3.0/base/s=
rclist.update
> Size mismatch
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or=20
> old ones used instead.
>=20
>=20
> I am not by any means an expert in how apt works on the server side,=20
> but it seems to me that this is a mismatch between the size reported=20
> for pkglist.update and srclist.update in the "release" file (1951561=20
> bytes and 69940 bytes, respectively) and the actual size of the files=20
> in question (rather larger).  Which, since "pkglist.update" was last=20
> updated some three months later than "release" (04-Dec-2003 vs=20
> 18-Dec-2003), seems not implausible.  Can anybody tell me if this is=20
> a correct diagnosis of the situation, and if so what (if anything) I=20
> should do about it?
>=20
> Thanks,
>=20
> 	Ben Warfield.
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