Bug#655986: approx creates zero-length file on error, which blocks download

2012-01-16 Thread Flavio Stanchina
On 16/01/2012 15:28, Eric Cooper wrote: On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 06:11:00PM +0100, Flavio Stanchina wrote: After removing the zero-length file, the download and installation went on without trouble. I've now noticed that the zero-length files are mentioned in the README. I somehow missed that

Bug#655986: approx creates zero-length file on error, which blocks download

2012-01-16 Thread Eric Cooper
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:40:17PM +0100, Flavio Stanchina wrote: I'm a bit skeptical about this. While it's certainly very unusual for a Debian mirror to be missing a file which should actually be there, accidents can happen. If I was in charge, I think I wouldn't try to cache misses, or at

Bug#655986: approx creates zero-length file on error, which blocks download

2012-01-16 Thread Eric Cooper
package approx tags 655986 confirmed thanks On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 06:11:00PM +0100, Flavio Stanchina wrote: Approx failed to download a file because the remote mirror was down. After I switched to another mirror, I got this error from apt-get: Err http://approx/debian/ sid/main libgmp10

Bug#655986: approx creates zero-length file on error, which blocks download

2012-01-15 Thread Flavio Stanchina
Package: approx Version: 5.1-1 Severity: normal Approx failed to download a file because the remote mirror was down. After I switched to another mirror, I got this error from apt-get: Err http://approx/debian/ sid/main libgmp10 i386 2:5.0.2+dfsg-2 404 Not Found I looked into the pool and