R SIG Debian - Oct 2011 - malformed Release files on CRAN for Ubuntu

$ sudo apt-get update
[...]
W: Failed to fetch
http://mirror.its.dal.ca/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu/lucid/Release  Unable
to find expected entry  Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release
file?)

$ wget -q -O - http://mirror.its.dal.ca/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu/lucid/Release
Architectures: i386 amd64 all source
Codename: lucid
Components: main
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:01:01 UTC
Description: R packages for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04
Label: CRAN
Origin: CRAN
Suite: lucid
Version: 10.04
MD5Sum:
 61cb2ac40c3f8d9959977c53e0a69738              211 Release
SHA1:
 61c6769f788b1eec1c3aee5aae189e17b087d8af              211 Release
SHA256:
 795fd0ad7f94b0e6038a5bbcba52608446a7f02eb81d4d198176aba2b5092a9b
        211 Release

Several other mirrors have the same file.

-- 
George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia

On 10/18/2011 09:25 AM, George N. White III wrote:
> $ sudo apt-get update
> [...]
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://mirror.its.dal.ca/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu/lucid/Release  Unable
> to find expected entry  Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release
> file?)
>
> $ wget -q -O - http://mirror.its.dal.ca/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu/lucid/Release
> Architectures: i386 amd64 all source
> Codename: lucid
> Components: main
> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:01:01 UTC
> Description: R packages for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04
> Label: CRAN
> Origin: CRAN
> Suite: lucid
> Version: 10.04
> MD5Sum:
>   61cb2ac40c3f8d9959977c53e0a69738              211 Release
> SHA1:
>   61c6769f788b1eec1c3aee5aae189e17b087d8af              211 Release
> SHA256:
>   795fd0ad7f94b0e6038a5bbcba52608446a7f02eb81d4d198176aba2b5092a9b
>          211 Release
>
> Several other mirrors have the same file.
>
George,

I can confirm this and I am working on figuring out what is wrong. 
Thanks for the information.

Michael

-- 
Dr. Michael A. Rutter
School of Science
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
Station Road
Erie, PA 16563
http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter

On 10/18/2011 09:25 AM, George N. White III wrote:
> $ sudo apt-get update
> [...]
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://mirror.its.dal.ca/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu/lucid/Release  Unable
> to find expected entry  Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release
> file?)
>
> $ wget -q -O - http://mirror.its.dal.ca/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu/lucid/Release
> Architectures: i386 amd64 all source
> Codename: lucid
> Components: main
> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:01:01 UTC
> Description: R packages for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04
> Label: CRAN
> Origin: CRAN
> Suite: lucid
> Version: 10.04
> MD5Sum:
>   61cb2ac40c3f8d9959977c53e0a69738              211 Release
> SHA1:
>   61c6769f788b1eec1c3aee5aae189e17b087d8af              211 Release
> SHA256:
>   795fd0ad7f94b0e6038a5bbcba52608446a7f02eb81d4d198176aba2b5092a9b
>          211 Release
>
> Several other mirrors have the same file.

OK, I believe the problem has been fixed.  It will be until the mirrors 
are re-synced before everyone sees the changes.

For some reason, the permissions on some of the files (Packages and 
Packages.gz, for example) were being eliminated.  Not sure why this 
happened, but I found a similar bug report from 2010 that said it was 
fixed.  I just changed the script to work around the issue.

Give it 24 hours and let me know if there are still issues.

Michael

-- 
Dr. Michael A. Rutter
School of Science
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
Station Road
Erie, PA 16563
http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter