Apt options like Acquire:: statements can be configured in apt.conf as well
as on the command line.
On Mar 21, 2013 11:00 AM, "Dick Middleton" <d...@lingbrae.com> wrote:
> On 03/21/13 16:27, Michael Vogt wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:19:57AM +0000, Dick Middleton wrote:
> >> Hi,
>
> >> I've been hit by this as well. For example RaspberryPi.org and
> their
> >> repositories at raspbian.org have AAAA records in DNS but these
> addresses are
> >> broken i.e. return nothing. This is going to happen more often as sites
> >> experiment with ipv6. Ideally programs should fall-back gracefully to
> ipv4 if
> >> ipv6 is not working.
> >
> > The attached patch should make this work:
> > $ sudo apt-get install --force-ipv6 2vcard
> > or
> > $ sudo apt-get install 2vcard -o Acquire::ForceIPv4=true
> >
> > I guess the open question is if we want a commandline switch or just a
> > config option and if "Acquire::ForceIPv{4,6}" is a good name.
>
> Personally I think a config option is more useful. FWIW I did discover
> this
> morning that apt-cacher-ng has something similar:
>
> acng.conf
>
> # Specifies the IP protocol families to use for remote connections. Order
> does
> # matter, first specified are considered first. Possible combinations:
> # v6 v4
> # v4 v6
> # v6
> # v4
> # (empty or not set: use system default)
> #
> ConnectProto: v4 v6
>
> However I don't think that apt-cacher falls back either if is there is no
> response from ipv6 server. That would be best; we don't really want to
> force
> things back on to ipv4 just because some ipv6 servers are broken.
>
> The OP has a different issue of course.
>
> Dick
>
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