Ritesh Raj Sarraf schrieb:
> On Friday 28 May 2010 02:29:05 Willi Mann wrote:
>> $ apt-offline get 1.sig
>> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apt/__init__.py:18: FutureWarning: apt API
>> not stable yet warnings.warn("apt API not stable yet", FutureWarning)
>>
>> Fetching APT Data
>>
>> Downloading
>> http://security.debian.org/dists/squeeze/updates/main/binary-i386/Packages
>> .lzma. ERROR:
>> http://security.debian.org/dists/squeeze/updates/main/binary-i386/Packages
>> .lzma - 404 - Not Found.
>
> The task for creation of the signature file is offloaded to apt on your
> offline
> box. Has that box been configured to support lzma ? That existence of the
It's a fresh installation of squeeze I did with the alpha 1 d-i netinst.
I didn't change any relevant setting in apt conffiles. Is there any
documentation on how to avoid apt trying to use lzma files? The article
on debian-administration.org didn't contain the string lzma,
> *.lzma files have been configured by your box's apt database.
>
> There's less apt-offline can do here. It got the signature, tried downloading
> and failed with a 404.
Wouldn't it be possible to implement some fallback mechanism? So far
only a few types of files that have multiple forms exist. So in case of
Packages, apt-offline could try .bz2, .gz and plain if .lzma fails.
WM
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