On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 08:51:27PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > I didn't notice until after upgrading that 'apt-get update' and Approx > appeared to worked correctly prior to upgrading (?). Any ideas?
I'm not sure, but due to the way mirrors work, it's often difficult to reproduce some problems, and they often just "go away" when you retry. For example, the ftp.us.debian.org mirror is actually round-robined among multiple sites. A longstanding problem with approx is that it resolves the name on each transfer (because I'm lazy and just pass the name to curl). If it resolves to different sites between the Release file and the Packages file, and those two sites are not in sync, the update can fail with checksum errors. Any way, I'm going to mark this closed as of version 5.5 unless you object. Sorry for the inconvenience. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
