My apt repository suffers from this bug too. It is very annoying to manually
blow away the cache db's and have them rebuild after an upload overwrites
and existing file.
I took a look at ftparchive/cachedb.cc in apt 0.5.28.6 (the sarge version
that is purported to work correctly), 0.5.4 (an intermediate version between
sarge and etch) and 0.6.46.4 (the current etch version). Without having any
particular C skills, it is not apparent to me why the overwritten
packages files are not having their sizes/timestamps recached.
using "db4.4_dump -p whatever.db", I am able to see the plaintext
package control data in the berkely db. According to cachedb.cc, the :st
keys contain the filesize and timestamps. They are not human readable
however and I can't get apt-ftparchive to give verbose output on
manual invocation so I cannot debug further.
joey
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