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Package: apt
Version: 0.6.46
Severity: critical
Tags: security
Justification: breaks unrelated software
Feel free to change severity as fit - "critical" is the highest
but being unable to upgrade or install packages breaks
the whole system as it gets more and more outdated
with time. And of course I don't get security
updates this way either.
"apt-get update" seems to not terminate at all.
It produces output like this:
Get:36 2006-10-14-1418.40.pdiff [30.0kB]
Get:37 2006-10-14-1418.40.pdiff [30.0kB]
Get:38 2006-10-10-1317.34.pdiff [80.8kB]
Get:39 2006-10-16-1354.47.pdiff [1160B]
Get:40 2006-10-16-1354.47.pdiff [1160B]
Get:41 2006-10-11-1350.40.pdiff [360B]
Get:42 2006-10-11-1350.40.pdiff [36.1kB]
Get:43 2006-10-11-1350.40.pdiff [36.1kB]
Get:44 2006-10-13-1359.55.pdiff [807B]
Get:45 2006-10-12-1433.11.pdiff [598B]
Get:46 2006-10-12-1433.11.pdiff [598B]
Get:47 2006-10-06-1339.35.pdiff [4878B]
Get:48 2006-10-14-1418.40.pdiff [1417B]
Get:49 2006-10-14-1418.40.pdiff [1417B]
Here 2006-10-14-1418.40.pdiff seems to repeat over and over.
Several other names do too - this never stops. apt-get
forever remains at "99% Packages rred."
Theoretically, this might terminate someday. But something is
definitely wrong when "update" takes *much* more time
than the weekly dist-upgrade takes.
Installing single packages with "apt-get" still works sometimes,
but this too becomes impossible as the packages referenced from
my outdated package database no longer exists in the pool.
I can't upgrade to the newer "apt" for example, because
it isn't in the database and "update" fails. "dist-upgrade"
also fail trying to fetch outdated packages.
So I am stuck. Of course, this is the price of using
testing+unstable. I'll try downloading the newest apt
package manually and install it using dpkg.
This version of "apt" is dangerous in that it
1) Gets itself stuck
2) It becomes a ddos attack on the debian servers, if many users starts
unattended "apt-get update" and keep downloading forever.
apt-get is indeed slow today . . .
-- Package-specific info:
-- (/etc/apt/preferences present, but not submitted) --
Pasted in manually, as "reporbug" crashes with some kind of
unicode error when I let it include files itself:
Package:*
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority:800
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 900
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 800
Package: *
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 700
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian
Pin-Priority: -10
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --
Included manually, as reportbug otherwise crashes:
#testing=etch
#unstable=sid
#stable=sarge
deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#Sikkerhetsoppdateringer
deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free
# Stable:
deb ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org/pub/debian stable main contrib non-free
#Testing:
deb ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org/pub/debian testing main contrib non-free
#deb ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US testing/non-US main
contrib non-f
ree
#Unstable
deb ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org/pub/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#Experimental
deb http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ ../project/experimental main
#Andre som ogs<E5> distribuerer .deb-filer:
#initng
deb http://debian.space-based.de/debs/ experimental main
#deb ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/packages/openoffice-debian testing
main cont
rib
deb http://developer.skulelinux.no/~gautehk/ooo-deb ./
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
#djbdns bin<E6>rpakker
deb http://smarden.org/pape/Debian sarge unofficial
#mozilla thunderbird prerelease
deb http://people.debian.org/~asac/testing ./
#26/9 2004 DRI X
#See http://www.nixnuts.net/files/README.txt
deb http://www.nixnuts.net/files/ ./
deb-src http://www.nixnuts.net/files/ ./
#libdvdcss
deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sid main
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (800, 'stable'), (700,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.19-rc1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-13 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
Versions of packages apt recommends:
pn debian-archive-keyring <none> (no description available)
-- debconf-show failed
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Version: 0.6.46
Here's the deal with this apparent duplicate file download. Apt
downloads a pdiff file for each suite, and for binary and source, and it
only prints the base name of the pdiff file. So if you have main,
contrib, and non-free deb and deb-src files, that's 6 "repeats" of the
same filename. If you also have experimental and testing, you'll get
something like 18 "repeats".
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