Bug#666036: approx: apt-get update errors with sid

2012-04-02 Thread Eric Cooper
I found an older bug in apt (#465572) that might be related. One of the workarounds suggested was to set Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth to a large value (like 1) in apt.conf, or on the apt-get command line with -O. Can you see if that makes the error go away? -- Eric Cooper e c c

Bug#666036: approx: apt-get update errors with sid

2012-04-02 Thread Brian May
On 3 April 2012 11:46, Eric Cooper wrote: > I found an older bug in apt (#465572) that might be related.  One of > the workarounds suggested was to set Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth to > a large value (like 1) in apt.conf, or on the apt-get command line > with -O.  Can you see if that makes th

Bug#666036: approx: apt-get update errors with sid

2012-04-02 Thread Brian May
On 3 April 2012 03:08, Eric Cooper wrote: > I don't see any error in retrieving the Packages.gz file from approx's > point of view, so I don't understand what apt-get is complaining > about. Yes, my thoughts exactly. > Can you also see if the same error occurs when using a different > mirror for

Bug#666036: approx: apt-get update errors with sid

2012-04-02 Thread Eric Cooper
> Errr... Check that again. After the Packages.xz, it seems to try > Packages.gz which works. Yes, I don't know why I missed that. Sorry for the red herring. > This is the default out-of-the box apt-get configuration. Only change > I have made is to set APT::Install-Recommends to False. I don't

Bug#666036: approx: apt-get update errors with sid

2012-04-01 Thread Brian May
On 2 April 2012 06:03, Eric Cooper wrote: > Your log shows that apt-get is requesting only the .xz form of Packages files. Errr... Check that again. After the Packages.xz, it seems to try Packages.gz which works. > Approx only works with gzip-compressed files (since it needs to decompress and >

Bug#666036: approx: apt-get update errors with sid

2012-04-01 Thread Eric Cooper
Your log shows that apt-get is requesting only the .xz form of Packages files. Approx only works with gzip-compressed files (since it needs to decompress and recompress on the fly, and the other formats are too slow for that). The default configuration of apt will "fall back" to gzip after first tr

Bug#666036: approx: apt-get update errors with sid

2012-03-31 Thread Brian May
On 31 March 2012 08:56, Eric Cooper wrote: > Also, is there any possibility for you to try the version from wheezy/sid > (5.1) to see if the problem is still there? As far as I can tell, the version in sid has the same problem. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ.

Bug#666036: approx: apt-get update errors with sid

2012-03-30 Thread Brian May
On 31 March 2012 08:56, Eric Cooper wrote: > Can you please send me your approx server's log output (with $debug > set to true in approx.conf) when this occurs? Attached. I hope :-) Curiously, the first time it worked this time. I only attached the log file for when it didn't work however. root

Bug#666036: approx: apt-get update errors with sid

2012-03-30 Thread Eric Cooper
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:58:06AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > Package: approx > Version: 4.5-1+squeeze1 > Severity: normal > > Seems to happen consistantly every time, only with sid: > > === cut === > (sid)root@merlock:~# apt-get update > Ign http://proxy.pri sid InRelease > Hit http://proxy.pri s

Bug#666036: approx: apt-get update errors with sid

2012-03-27 Thread Brian May
Package: approx Version: 4.5-1+squeeze1 Severity: normal Seems to happen consistantly every time, only with sid: === cut === (sid)root@merlock:~# apt-get update Ign http://proxy.pri sid InRelease Hit http://proxy.pri sid Release.gpg Hit http://proxy.pri sid Release Ign http://proxy.pri sid/main a