On Sunday 06 July 2008 00:35:22 Christoph Korn wrote: > Again it was ejected, but with different error message: > MD5 sum of uploaded file does not match existing file in archive The upload processor checks to see if it can find a .orig either already in your PPA or in Ubuntu. If you try to re-upload the same file, you will get this error if the md5 sum does not match. i.e. you changed it, this is bad. > > Package version was: 1:2.4.3-1~ppa1 > > Why does the upload system recognize that it was me who previously > uploaded the other package (remember that I had put a wrong lauchpad > id into ~/.dput.cf)? > > Then all of the following version strings failed with the same MD5 error: > 1:2.4.3-1~ppa2 > 1:2.4.3-2~ppa3 > 2:2.4.3-3~ppa4 > > At the end I had to change the version of the package itself: > 1:2.4.3+1-1~ppa > This has worked finally. > > Well, this is not a satisfying solution as you will see. > > Has this really to be done or is there a better solution? Without knowing the PPA and the package name it's hard to provide more help. However, I would check to see if your .orig changed at that version where it worked.
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