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[James Westby <jw+debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 23:14:55 +0100, Max Bowsher <maxb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 02/08/10 22:09, James Westby wrote:
> > (Note that uploading the same version as before with different contents
> > isn't a problem with apt. Apt will do the right thing and get you the
> > new version, but there may be other tools that break.)
> 
> Mmm, I disagree.
> 
> I've observed Apt doing the following:
> 
> 1) Aha! The package in the archive has changed its metadata! You need to
> upgrade from version 1.0-1 to version 1.0-1.
> 2) But, I already have version 1.0-1 in /var/cache/apt/archives/ so I
> don't need to download it.
> 3) Oh noes! The installed package is still different from the archive!
> You need to upgrade from version 1.0-1 to version 1.0-1.
> 
> ... repeat infinitely, until you manually purge the old version from
> /var/cache/apt/archives/, so that Apt actually downloads the package,
> rather than reinstalling the old incarnation of the version number.

Hah, that's mighty silly of it, and is a bug in apt that should be
fixed.

Thanks,

James