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Verwijs's avatar
Verwijs
Helpful | Level 7
2 months ago
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Linux install - do not add "dropbox.list" to apt... (deb)

Linux install - do not add "dropbox.list" to apt... (deb install)  latest Linux versions use DEB822 Source Format now (.sources) or replace "dropbox.list" with "dropbox.surces" example: Types: de...
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  • Neal's avatar
    Neal
    1 month ago

    Hi Verwijs​,

    Thanks for submitting your idea.

    I've looked into this and it looks like we won't be implementing this as we have a built in command which will convert dropbox.list to dropbox.sources.

    We appreciate the feedback though and are always looking to hear your feedback!

Здравко's avatar
Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
1 month ago

Hi Neal​,

I want to report something little more urgent related again to your repository organization. I just tried to update my packages and found out that there is a bug in your repository (files size mismatch). In your repository the sign file (actually all 'InRelease' files), for 2 of the files there, is declared incorrect size and so apt refuses to update package data for Dropbox. You may take a look on and compare InRelease and Release files. For InRelease, I enlightened following:

...
 137ac6101594668cfdb4bd6c3845c9aa             2030 main/binary-amd64/Packages
 62674c968547a6692c61aa2299346064             1164 main/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2
 4881108a0da15f24ca2612cf079f345c             1084 main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
 5c903ce25ce9411b2c2fdb970e683b5b              677 main/binary-i386/Packages
...

The equivalent part of Release is as follows:

...
 a28570dbcd7eb36c2f08a3bc8aee7c1c             2030 main/binary-amd64/Packages
 33358b1ec1e381b7f83fff383a57eb3c             1177 main/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2
 dccf6ed1786f560ead5750b0ff0be2ee             1087 main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
 e9e086c484c19d6543978720e41f9780              677 main/binary-i386/Packages
...

As you might saw already for files Packages.bz and Packages.gz neither hash nor size match, but it is MUST! Such differences (even one is enough) make the repository non trusted and apt responses with following:

E: Неуспех при изтеглянето на http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2  File has unexpected size (1177 != 1164). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: 18.165.72.41 80]
   Hashes of expected file:
    - Filesize:1164 [weak]
    - SHA512:a50404036f1307dff23fca233e708773fd5be5413450c1dd61a5b5030b133f714edc1f2494c67665458ef07a13c45352dd485847a93014cf0c19fbb10a92a423
    - SHA256:eee63bb11431bf7a4345465c38a3912b914437468858765a326f91258bee6d1a
    - SHA1:4d5c4648c1e90426338f36c0f4604178caa92e59 [weak]
    - MD5Sum:62674c968547a6692c61aa2299346064 [weak]
   Release file created at: Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:17:55 +0000

Whatever change you have done at 8 January, only Release has updated, but InRelease hasn't!

Even more - finally it's time to send in retirement weak hashing/signing algorithms and replace them with some more strong - something that as it seems apt complains about too.

This is not something that directly breaks the application, but keeping this will prevent further package update.
I hope after your forwarding this to responsible team they'll keep it into account from now on.

  • Neal's avatar
    Neal
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    1 month ago

    Hi Здравко​,

    Thanks for reporting this issue too!

    I've since passed this on to our team and they have confirmed this morning that they have now fixed the issue.

    Thanks again and please let me know if you need anything else!

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