On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Jürgen A. Erhard wrote: > > Get:N ....... VERSION [156kB] > > and then proceeded to fetch mutch more than that, showing s.th. like > [N blah 757342/1507kB]
This is a problem with your server, it happens when it reports a file size that is different from the one in the package file. > There are no *.FAILED pkgs in /var/cache/apt/archives from this... the > packages just vanish on interrupting apt-get, it seems (so on restart it > fetches again from the beginning) Why would there be? APT does not use a .FAILED extension. Check in the partial sub directory. > Being on a 33.6 modem line, this is really annoying, as it *really* fetches > stuff... though since it happens to fetch more than the server should give > it, this should be impossible, right? Yes, and thats why it is a problem with the server, or a proxy Jason
