[Aptitude-devel] Calculating old sha1sum... local file too old

[David Kalnischkies]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:00 PM, shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Downloading Index
> http://debian.ec.as6453.net/debian/dists/experimental/contrib/Contents-amd64.diff/Index:
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
> 100  7819  100  7819    0     0  17587      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 17690
> Calculating old sha1sum...
> local file too old

That's a text which looks suspiciously like it is from apt-file.

And what this should tell you is that it is not trying to patch the Contents
file you have on disk up to version online because "local file too old",
it downloads the complete new file instead.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies