package archive inconsistent

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:32:13 +1100 Sarah Hobbs <hobbsee at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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>Hadmut Danisch wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> when installing the vmware-player package  1:2.0.2-1~ppa5 from
>> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/cschieli/ubuntu gutsy main
>> 
>> the apt system tries to reinstall the very same package as an update 
again
>> and again.
>> 
>> The reason for that is that the entry in the Packages file of the 
>> archive differs from the
>> control file included in the package.
>> 
>> regards
>> Hadmut
>> 
>> 
>PPA has nothing to do with MOTU - please don't report their bugs here.
>
>Hobbsee

To go a bit further, it's nothing to do with Ubuntu at all.  3rd party repositories are 
completely unsupported even when they happen to be hosted on the same 
service Ubuntu uses.

Scott K