[Qa-jenkins-dev] Different versions

[Santiago Vila]

On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 09:13:52AM +0000, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 11:01:37AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > How one does debug a wait-dep state?
> 
> Just looking at the build log.
> it failed to download a build-dep during the second build, I've just
> retried it.
> 
> E: impossible de récupérer http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/tzdata/tzdata-java_2015g-1_all.deb : Échec de la connexion
> E: Impossible d'effectuer une correction pour des paquets manquants
> E: pbuilder-satisfydepends failed.
> 
> (the last string is what caused the build-dep state)

I would call that a "false positive" regarding "build-dep".

I see that the package tzdata-java_2015g-1 was uploaded yesterday.

If the one available in the mirrors (ftp.de.debian.org specifically)
was still 2015f-1, why is it not using 2015f-1?

The mirrors scripts usually download all new .deb packages first, and
then they replace the old Packages.gz files by the new ones. This is
done precisely to avoid "apt-get update" followed by "apt-get install"
trying to install files which have not been pushed to the mirror yet.

But apparently that clever trick is not working.

My only guess is that the system as a whole is using two different
copies of Packages.gz which do not sync at the same time. Could this
be the reason?