On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 03:10:54PM -0700, pdbo...@cernu.us wrote: > On top my problem- The situation we're encountering is that apt-get (and > aptitude, fwiw) continuously want to upgrade an installed package that we > maintain, even when the version, hash, etc., is not changed. This output > demonstrates the issue:
Your package doesn't match the metadata provided for it, so libapt thinks its a rebuild (without version change) and downloads the "new" version for installation. In your case at least the Installed-Size: field is missing in the Packages file (which is hence assumed to be zero), while the control file inside the package has such a field with non-zero size. Other fields which must match to the letter are e.g. Depends and Pre-Depends (a "common" mistake is e.g. having versions there which are rewritten by some tools like a 0-epoch). Not sure what tool you are using to generate an apt repository, but it seems rather non-standard given that it includes the deb file also in the Release file… using one of the many already existent solutions might be better… Best regards David Kalnischkies
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