On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 09:15:44 -0400
Eric Cooper <e...@cmu.edu> wrote:

> 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?

No, and I don't see any of the system config files below have anything like 
that either.

$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
APT::Install-Recommends "false";
// APT::Default-Release "stable";

$ grep . /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/*
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove:APT
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove:{
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove:  NeverAutoRemove
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove:  {
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove:       "^firmware-linux.*";
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove:       "^linux-firmware$";
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove:       "^linux-image.*";
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove:       "^kfreebsd-image.*";
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove:       "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove:       "^linux-ubuntu-modules-.*";
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove:       "^gnumach$";
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove:       "^gnumach-image.*";
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove:  };
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove:  Never-MarkAuto-Sections
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove:  {
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove:       "metapackages";
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove:       "restricted/metapackages";
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove:       "universe/metapackages";
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove:       "multiverse/metapackages";
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove:       "oldlibs";
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove:       "restricted/oldlibs";
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove:       "universe/oldlibs";
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove:       "multiverse/oldlibs";
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove:  };
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove:};
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20listchanges:DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs { 
"/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10"; };
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20listchanges:DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version
 "2";
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf:// Pre-configure all packages with debconf before 
they are installed.
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf:// If you don't like it, comment it out.
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf:DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs 
{"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";};
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90debsums:DPkg::Post-Invoke { "if [ -x /usr/bin/debsums ]; 
then /usr/bin/debsums --generate=nocheck -sp /var/cache/apt/archives; fi"; };
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99-localepurge:// Get rid of unneeded locale files after 
each package installation
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99-localepurge:DPkg
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99-localepurge:{
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99-localepurge:Post-Invoke {"if [ -x /usr/sbin/localepurge 
] && [ $(ps w -p $PPID | grep -c remove) != 1 ]; then /usr/sbin/localepurge; 
else exit 0; fi";};
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99-localepurge:};
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99synaptic:APT::Install-Recommends "false";

-- 
With respect,
Roman

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