On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 05:16:54PM +0600, Roman Mamedov wrote:

> > Attached is a patch that should do just that. But maybe it breaks
> > fetching an unpacked Packages file, if that should be allowed.
> 
> And in fact it totally does, only one update completes successfully,
> after that all clients get the error 404 trying to fetch "Packages"
> (not gz, not bz2, this exact filename), and according to approx
> cache dir contents, it only has Packages.gz.

Approx only works correctly with Packages.gz files.
Normally apt-get does not request uncompressed Packages files; have
you configured it specifically to do so?

> Did you even test this patch at all?

Of course, I've been using it for about a month with no problems.  But
as I said, I have a "vanilla" apt configuration on my clients, so they
request only compressed index files.

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Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u



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