Hello Debian users,
I'm experimenting with Debian in an enterprise environment. We have a corp.
Internet proxy which downloads and scans files prior to passing the files onto
the client.
With Debian this seems to be a problem for APT. I am able to run 'apt-get
update' and that seems to work OK, however when I try to actually run 'apt-get
upgrade' on Debian 10 it tries for a few seconds to download a patch for:
'linux-image-4.19.0-5-amd64', which is 47.6MB. It tries and gives up fairly
quickly.
# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
linux-image-4.19.0-5-amd64
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 47.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 3,072 B disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian-security
buster/updates/main amd64 linux-image-4.19.0-5-amd64 amd64 4.19.37-5+deb10u2
[47.6 MB]
Err:1 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian-security
buster/updates/main amd64 linux-image-4.19.0-5-amd64 amd64 4.19.37-5+deb10u2
Undetermined Error [IP: x.x.x.x]
E: Failed to fetch
http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/l/linux-signed-amd64/linux-image-4.19.0-5-amd64_4.19.37-5+deb10u2_amd64.deb
Undetermined Error [IP: x.x.x.x]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with
--fix-missing?
I have tried to search Google to find a way to significantly increase the
timeout that APT has or the number of retries without any success, but I fear I
may be doing it wrong. Here is my apt.conf:
# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
Acquire::http::Proxy "http://proxy.domain.tld:80";;
Acquire::http::Timeout "999";
Acquire::https::Timeout "999";
APT::Acquire::Retries "5";
Anyone have any experience with forcing Debian's APT to try very hard and for a
long time while doing downloads/upgrades? If it matters I'm running Debian 10
AMD64 on VMware vSphere.
Thanks,
