"File is already registered with different checksums!" during "reprepro update"

[andywolk]

"reprepro update" does not success with:

File "pool/unstable/b/blah/blah_1.1.0~232~0ac2e9c.orig.tar.xz" is already registered with different checksums!
[...]
There have been errors!

Is there a way to ignore that?

[bdrung]

I don't know a way to ignore the checksum mismatch.

[maxadamo]

IMO, it needs to be removed from checksums.db, when reprepro remove is used.

[bdrung]

Can you provide a small test case to reproduce this error message?

[maxadamo]

I run:

reprepro -b . remove bionic <mypackage>

I add it again:

reprepro -b ${BASE_DIR}/ includedeb $CODENAME g10k-<version>.deb

and I get the same error mentioned by @andywolk

Maybe I should have used remove <package>=<version> ❓

[bdrung]

Do you get the same error message, when you create a fresh repository and add/remove/add the package?

[maxadamo]

TBH, I am trying to edit checksums.db myself, but the the python library that I am using seems to have some limitation:

DBInvalidArgError: (22, 'Invalid argument -- BDB0590 files containing multiple databases may only be opened read-only')