Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: normal Apt should not be doing this...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp>apt-get source fetchmail Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Need to get 1019kB of source archives. Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main fetchmail 5.9.0-3 (dsc) [738B] Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main fetchmail 5.9.0-3 (tar) [863kB] Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main fetchmail 5.9.0-3 (diff) [155kB] Get:4 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main fetchmail 5.9.0-3 (tar) [863kB] Get:5 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main fetchmail 5.9.0-3 (diff) [155kB] Get:6 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main fetchmail 5.9.0-3 (tar) [863kB] Get:7 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main fetchmail 5.9.0-3 (diff) [155kB] Get:8 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main fetchmail 5.9.0-3 (tar) [863kB] Err http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main fetchmail 5.9.0-3 (tar) Error reading from server Remote end closed connection [IP: 209.10.41.242 80] Get:9 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main fetchmail 5.9.0-3 (tar) [863kB] Err http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main fetchmail 5.9.0-3 (tar) Error reading from server Remote end closed connection [IP: 209.10.41.242 80] Get:10 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main fetchmail 5.9.0-3 (tar) [863kB] Fetched 267kB in 7m46s (572B/s) dpkg-source: extracting fetchmail in fetchmail-5.9.0 I do have Acquire::Retries set to 5, which is why it retried when 209.10.41.242 hung up on in. That doesn't explain why it is downloading the tar and diff over and over so many times though -- once per each server on the rotation, maybe? My sources.list follows. deb file:/home/joey/debian/public / deb-src file:/home/joey/debian/public ./ deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free deb http://kitenet.net/programs/code/debian / deb-src http://kitenet.net/programs/code/debian / deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux silk 2.4.9 #1 Tue Aug 21 15:06:24 EDT 2001 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.4-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.010902 The GNU stdc++ library
