Broken indexes on ftp

[Andrzej Krzysztofowicz]

=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Marcin_Kr=F3l?= wrote:
> Some of you probably has read about problems with AC installation using 
> network bootdisk. I must say, I was surprised by those problems, as I 
> haven't changed bootdisk images in the meantime. I think that poldek 
> indexes on ftp are broken. Why?
> 
> 1. Instead of installing packages, poldek in installer just says "broken 
> dependencies". And nothing more. After adding -vv its says:
> 
> warn: req 'kernel-smp = 2.4.27-1' needs an epoch (assuming same epoch as
> kernel-smp-3:2.6.8-4)
> 
> and same thing for almost every package, but of course with different 
> package names and versions.
> 
> 2. Regenerating indexes on ftp doesn't fixes the problem. But 
> regenerating indexes on my private mirror(s) solves the problem and 
> everything is working ok again. While regenerating indexes my system 
> poldek says "BROKEN" about original indexes from ftp. My poldek version: 
>   0.18.7-2, version in installer: same, version on ftp: 0.18.3-4
> 
> So... If regenerating indexes helps, then those from ftp are broken. 
> Question is: what was changed and is causing this? Whatever it was, it 
> must be reverted or fixed, or installation via network bootdisks will 
> not work.

# rpm -q poldek
poldek-0.18.7-2

I use poldek from Ac-main tree and have no problems with indexes from ftp.
Maybe it is poldek.conf problem ?

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