Comment 14 for bug 250909

We are still encountering this problem with natty and oneiric.

With natty packages larger than 2GB can not be installed because of a size mismatch:

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  matlab
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2172 MB of archives. After unpacking 4479 MB will be used.
Get:1 http://example.com/ubuntu/site/ natty/all matlab amd64 7.13-1-4 [2172 MB]
Fetched 18.4 EB in 1min 32s (200 PB/s)
W: Bizarre Error - File size is not what the server reported 2171943158 18446744071586527478
E: Failed to fetch http://example.com/ubuntu/site/dists/natty/all/binary-amd64/matlab/matlab_7.13-1-4_amd64.deb: Size mismatch

With oneiric packages larger than 2GB can be installed but you get several error and warning messages:

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  matlab
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2172 MB of archives. After unpacking 4479 MB will be used.
Get: 1 http://example.com/ubuntu/site/ oneiric/all matlab amd64 7.13-1-4 [2172 MB]
Fetched 2172 MB in 1min 10s (30.8 MB/s)
E: Unable to seek ahead 2168965456
E: Prior errors apply to /var/cache/apt/archives/matlab_7.13-1-4_amd64.deb
debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: Illegal seek
Selecting previously deselected package matlab.
(Reading database ... 278578 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking matlab (from .../matlab_7.13-1-4_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up matlab (7.13-1-4) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
W: Size of file /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/matlab_7.13-1-4_amd64.deb is not what the server reported 2171943158 18446744071586527478

W: Size of file /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/matlab_7.13-1-4_amd64.deb is not what the server reported 2171943158 18446744071586527478