R SIG Debian - May 2010 - cran2deb Packages.bz2 Hash Sum mismatch

Hi,

I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 amd64 with cran2deb packages (I know it's meant
for Debian, it's worked fine for me for many months).

Recently apt-get update has to started to complain:

...
Hit http://debian.cran.r-project.org testing/ Release
Get:1 http://debian.cran.r-project.org testing/ Packages [515kB]
Fetched 1B in 3s (0B/s)
W: Failed to fetch
http://debian.cran.r-project.org/cran2deb/debian-amd64/testing/Packages.bz2
 Hash Sum mismatch

My /etc/apt/sources contains:
deb http://debian.cran.r-project.org/cran2deb/debian-amd64 testing/

Any idea?

Thanks,
Gad

-- 
Gad Abraham
PhD Student, Dept. CSSE and NICTA
The University of Melbourne
Parkville 3010, Victoria, Australia
email: gabraham at csse.unimelb.edu.au
web: http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~gabraham

On 26 May 2010 at 11:28, Gad Abraham wrote:
| Recently apt-get update has to started to complain:
| 
| ...
| Hit http://debian.cran.r-project.org testing/ Release
| Get:1 http://debian.cran.r-project.org testing/ Packages [515kB]
| Fetched 1B in 3s (0B/s)
| W: Failed to fetch
| http://debian.cran.r-project.org/cran2deb/debian-amd64/testing/Packages.bz2
|  Hash Sum mismatch
| 
| My /etc/apt/sources contains:
| deb http://debian.cran.r-project.org/cran2deb/debian-amd64 testing/
| 
| Any idea?

Yes, sorry about that.  

I just asked for advice on debian-devel and it appears to be a
"feature" of
the mini-dinstall package we use to create the archive.  

The general recommendation seems to be that one should switch to the reprepro
package for archive creation which Charles and I plan to do that.  But it is
not yet clear when we will have time to do so.

-- 
  Regards, Dirk

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
wrote:
>
> On 26 May 2010 at 11:28, Gad Abraham wrote:
> | Recently apt-get update has to started to complain:
> |
> | ...
> | Hit http://debian.cran.r-project.org testing/ Release
> | Get:1 http://debian.cran.r-project.org testing/ Packages [515kB]
> | Fetched 1B in 3s (0B/s)
> | W: Failed to fetch
> |
http://debian.cran.r-project.org/cran2deb/debian-amd64/testing/Packages.bz2
> | ?Hash Sum mismatch
> |
> | My /etc/apt/sources contains:
> | deb http://debian.cran.r-project.org/cran2deb/debian-amd64 testing/
> |
> | Any idea?
>
> Yes, sorry about that.
>
> I just asked for advice on debian-devel and it appears to be a
"feature" of
> the mini-dinstall package we use to create the archive.
>
> The general recommendation seems to be that one should switch to the
reprepro
> package for archive creation which Charles and I plan to do that. ?But it
is
> not yet clear when we will have time to do so.
>
Thanks for your help and for cran2deb.

Does this mean cran2deb debian64 will be broken for the near future?

-- 
Gad Abraham
PhD Student, Dept. CSSE and NICTA
The University of Melbourne
Parkville 3010, Victoria, Australia
email: gabraham at csse.unimelb.edu.au
web: http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~gabraham