[PlanetCCRMA] Size mismatch in apt-get update

[David Fraser]

Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

>>The below is the result of running apt-get update on my machine.
>>Are the size mismatches significant? Is there a way I can debug them?
>>I tried removing the ccrma items from sources.list, doing an apt-get 
>>update, adding them back, doing another update, but that didn't work
>>
>>[root@scir root]# apt-get update
>>[MUNCH]
>>Failed to fetch 
>>http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt/redhat/7.3/en/i386/base/pkglist.os  
>>Size mismatch
>>Failed to fetch 
>>http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt/redhat/7.3/en/i386/base/release.os  
>>Size mismatch
>>Failed to fetch 
>>http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt/redhat/7.3/en/i386/base/release.updates  
>>Size mismatch
>>Failed to fetch 
>>http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt/redhat/7.x/en/i386/base/release.planetccrma  
>>Size mismatch
>>Failed to fetch 
>>http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt/redhat/7.x/en/i386/base/release.planetcore  
>>Size mismatch
>>Failed to fetch 
>>http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt/redhat/7.3/en/i386/base/release.planetccrma  
>>Size mismatch
>>    
>>
>
>Strange, I just confirmed that those url's are currently working. Maybe
>you accessed them just when they were being changed yesterday? Could you
>try again?
>
>  
>
>>Reading Package Lists... Done
>>Building Dependency Tree... Done
>>E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old 
>>ones used instead.
>>
>>PS also attached apt.conf and sources.list
>>    
>>
>
>Could you please update your /etc/apt/apt.conf and sources.list? The
>apt.conf you have is very old and would not be good for updating kernels
>automatically (unless you also have a very old apt package - which
>version do you see if you do a "rpm -q apt"?), the sources.list has
>obsolete lines in it (7.x.up)
>
>Could you try with these lines in sources.list?
>
>rpm http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt redhat/7.3/en/i386 os
>updates
>rpm http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt redhat/7.3/en/i386
>planetcore
>rpm http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt redhat/7.3/en/i386
>planetccrma
>rpm http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt redhat/7.3/en/i386
>planetedge
>
>Let me know how it goes...
>-- Fernando
>
Thanks, Fernando, the new sources.list solved the problem.
I do have the most recent apt (0.5.5cnc6-1.rh73) updated from ccrma.
How do I update apt.conf to the standard?

Appreciate the help
David