Re: RAR problem on dag

Dear Mr.Dag Wieers,
to my surprise and joy yesterday apt-get worked fine at night.Long
back i was complaining that i couldn't install anything using apt;but
yesterday i installed xine and mplayer....
Thanks a lot for maintaining such a repository that serves a lot for
the linux migrants...
Thanking you again for all the dedication and devotion shown,
Gejoe Daniel

On 2/7/06, Dag Wieers <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Danny Terweij wrote:
>
> > From: "Dag Wieers" <[email protected]>
> >
> > > > Its been a few weeks now that yum reports :
> > > > Error Downloading Packages:
> > > >   rar - 3.5.1-1.1.fc3.rf.i586: failure:
> > RPMS/rar-3.5.1-1.1.fc3.rf.i586.rpm
> > > > from dag: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
> > > > Please fix so i dont have to do --exclude=rar  manualy
> >
> > > Why do you presume that I can fix this ? :)
> >
> > More detailed: (also after yum clean all)
> >
> > --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> > ---> Package rar.i586 0:3.5.1-1.1.fc3.rf set to be updated
> > --> Running transaction check
> >
> > Dependencies Resolved
> > Transaction Listing:
> >   Update: rar.i586 0:3.5.1-1.1.fc3.rf - dag
> > Total download size: 233 k
> > Is this ok [y/N]: y
> > Downloading Packages:
> > (1/1): rar-3.5.1-1.1.fc3. 100% |=========================| 233 kB    00:00
> > http://apt.sw.be/fedora/3/en/i386/dag/RPMS/rar-3.5.1-1.1.fc3.rf.i586.rpm:
> > [Errno -1] Package does not match checksum
> > Trying other mirror.
> > Error Downloading Packages:
> >   rar - 3.5.1-1.1.fc3.rf.i586: failure: RPMS/rar-3.5.1-1.1.fc3.rf.i586.rpm
> > from dag: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
> >
> > Thats why :)
>
> [root@lisse rar]# rpm -qpi rar-3.5.1-1.1.fc3.rf.i586.rpm
> Name        : rar                          Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 3.5.1                             Vendor: Dag Apt Repository, http://dag.wieers.com/apt/
> Release     : 1.1.fc3.rf                    Build Date: Sat 14 Jan 2006 01:54:33 PM CET
> Install Date: (not installed)               Build Host: lisse.leuven.wieers.com
> Group       : Applications/Archiving        Source RPM: rar-3.5.1-1.1.fc3.rf.src.rpm
> Size        : 439024                           License: Shareware
> Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Sat 14 Jan 2006 06:29:58 PM CET, Key ID a20e52146b8d79e6
> Packager    : Dag Wieers <[email protected]>
> URL         : http://www.rarlabs.com/
> Summary     : RAR archiver to create and manage RAR archives
> Description :
> RAR is a powerful tool allowing you to manage and control archive files.
> Console RAR supports archives only in RAR format, which names usually have
> a ".rar" extension. ZIP and other formats are not supported.
>
> On my system the file is ok. So it must be another corruption by Apache on
> the mirror. Did you try on another mirror (or use the mirrorlist instead) ?
>
>
> > > Yum doesn't say exactly what the problem is. It might be a corrupted
> > > package locally, a disk full condition, a proxy problem, I can guarantee
> > > that this package is available from the server without a problem.
> >
> > Now you see the problem... my guess, maybe corrupted localy on your disk :)
>
> Not on my disk :) It's most likely apache (or rsync) again. Only matthias
> can fix this on a case by case basis. As I don't have access to the system
> (and clearly rsync is not detecting the problem either).
>
> We should get a detailed analysis from HEAnet so it can be reported
> upstream if we ever want to fix this.
>
> Kind regards,
> --   dag wieers,  [email protected],  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
> [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
>