I ran into an interesting error the other day. It was a checksum mismatch when trying to get updates from an apt repo. The file size was also different than expected.

The error message from apt helpfully suggested that this might be because the server was in the middle of an rsync.

I tried it again and sure enough, it worked fine. It's one of those situations that I never ran into or thought of, but it makes sense in retrospect.

It makes me think about my apt repo & whether I can avoid this.

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