Package: apt Version: 0.5.14 Severity: minor
over a 56k modem link, do an apt-get update, and i wait half an hour: Hit ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org stable/non-free Release Fetched 1287kB in 23m19s (919B/s) Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Data socket timed out [IP: 81.91.108.243 21] Reading Package Lists... Done E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. so i do an apt-get update again, thinking that only the one file will be retried, the rest having already been downloaded. NOPE! the WHOLE lot of the unstable files are reloaded. is this right? does it mean that the time on my computer is wrong? (i may not have timezones set correctly) or does it mean that there is a bug? because the _stable_ packages are _never_ reloaded unless i comment them out and do an apt-get update and then re-comment them back in again. -- Package-specific info: -- apt-config dump -- APT ""; APT::Architecture "i386"; APT::Build-Essential ""; APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential"; APT::ftp ""; APT::ftp::Passive ""; APT::ftp::Passive::ftp.uk.debian.org "false"; APT::Cache-Limit "100000000"; Dir "/"; Dir::State "var/lib/apt/"; Dir::State::lists "lists/"; Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list"; Dir::State::userstatus "status.user"; Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status"; Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/"; Dir::Cache::archives "archives/"; Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin"; Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin"; Dir::Etc "etc/apt/"; Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list"; Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list"; Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d"; Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf"; Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d"; Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences"; Dir::Bin ""; Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods"; Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg"; DPkg ""; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs ""; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true"; Acquire ""; Acquire::ftp ""; Acquire::ftp::Passive "true"; Acquire::ftp::ProxyLogin ""; Acquire::ftp::ProxyLogin:: "USER [EMAIL PROTECTED]"; Acquire::ftp::ProxyLogin:: "PASS none@"; Acquire::ftp::Timeout "120"; -- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) -- -- /etc/apt/sources.list -- deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free #deb http://people.debian.org/~remi potato updates -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux highfield 2.4.22-1-686 #6 Sat Oct 4 14:09:08 EST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.3.2-0pre2 GCC support library ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.2-0pre2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 -- no debconf information
