[maemo-developers] explanations of the recent download problems

[From: Ferenc Szekely]

Hello again,

> Question:
> why the Packages have the wrong size. Well, frankly I don't know. It
> can only be because our repo manager tool had a hiccup, though it has
> been working quite well in the past years.
>
> Anyways, I try to rebuild that package database and see if that will help.
>
Rebuilding the Packages file helped. I suspect it is our tool which
made the mistake. We will have to look into that.

In the meantime please report all size-mismatch errors, so I can
collect test cases.

Cheers,
ferenc

>
> [1] http://repository.maemo.org/extras/dists/chinook/free/binary-armel/Packages
> [2] http://repository.maemo.org/extras/pool/chinook/free/p/pidgin-extprefs/
>