Package: apt-cacher Version: 1.0.3 Severity: important
Hi Jonathan, This is a regression. I do not remember which version the problem started to really manifest itself, probably the last two weeks (it is Aug 9 today). Several repositories do not include 'Release' or 'Release.gpg' files. When 'apt-get update' tries to download these it appears that data is available, that is the line has a number in brackets and the status line starts at '0%'. Looking in the apt-cacher cache directory, there are several '.notify' files in the 'private/' directory and the 'headers/' directory contains the headers from the servers with the 404 statuses. Looking at the headers, the value of the 'Content-Length' header of the 404 status is what is being sent to 'apt-get update' for the length of the file. The end result being that 'apt-get update' takes a LONG time to complete, since each unavailable file has to time out. Some of the repositories I am using with missing Release files: deb http://www/apt-cacher/dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian unstable mythtv deb http://www/apt-cacher/people.debian.org/~costela/debian ./ deb http://www/apt-cacher/debian.isg.ee.ethz.ch/public sarge ibm-acpi Cheers, Johnny -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.2-skas3-v8-endless Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Versions of packages apt-cacher depends on: ii bzip2 1.0.2-8 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libwww-perl 5.803-4 WWW client/server library for Perl ii perl 5.8.7-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction apt-cacher recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
