Am 2010-05-29 00:23, schrieb David Kalnischkies: > Hi, > > as every other (interesting) config setting this one is also documented > in apt.conf (5) section Acquire group, item CompressionTypes. > That the internet doesn't know about it by now is caused by the > fact that it is relatively "new". > The default is "bz2", "lzma", "gz". > > I suspect you don't have bzip2 installed, but lzma (and gzip)? > So APT will ignore "bz2" as it can't unpack it without bzip2, > tries lzma and if this file can't be downloaded > (and it can't from any official debian server) "gz". > End of the story.
Yes, I didn't explicitly install bzip2, so it's probably the reason for this bug. Ritesh, could you add a recommends to bzip2 in apt-offline? That would probably solve the problem for most people, at least if they only use the official archive. WM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
