[Debian-ppc64-devel] Repository out-of-sync

[Andreas Jochens]

Hello,

On 06-Sep-19 14:22, Livio Soares wrote:
>   For a while now, I have  noticed that the Release/Packages files have not been
> updated   since  May.   My  impression   was   that  the   project  had   slowed
> development. However, looking  at the buildd-logs, packages seemed  to have been
> built/uploaded as recent as yesterday (18/Sept). 
> 
>   This lack of synchronization causes my 'apt' to get confused. For example:
> 
> Failed to fetch http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/pool/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-bin_3.5.2-2_ppc64.deb  Size mismatch
> Failed to fetch http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/pool/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs-data_3.5.2-2_all.deb  Size mismatch
> Failed to fetch http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/pool/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.2-2_ppc64.deb  Size mismatch
> 
>   Is there any way to update the Release/Packages files automatically so that it
> reflects the contents of whatever is in pool/ ? 

thank you for reporting this problem!

New packages for ppc64 are built regularly for the unstable distribution. 

However, there was a problem with the synchronization of the ppc64 
archive on alioth. The whole 'dists' directory which includes the 
Release and Packages files was not updated for quite a long time.

This has been fixed now and the ppc64 archive is up to date again, i.e.
the ppc64 archive has current versions of more than 98% of the packages 
in the 'unstable' and 'testing'/'etch' distributions.

Regards
Andreas Jochens

P.S.: Sorry for the late answer to your problem report. I did not have 
proper internet access during the last few days.