Public bug reported: When running the apt-cacher version 1.4.1 included with Dapper, in combination with apt from Dapper, they wlil not cooperate. APT now requests the full url in the HTTP transaction
See: Bug #46776 Upgrading to the apt-cacher in the Edgy repository does correct this issue (1.5.3). Here's the debug output from apt-cacher when it's failing: Sat Jul 1 18:17:29 2006|172.29.5.50|debug [16266]: Exiting critical section Sat Jul 1 18:17:29 2006|172.29.5.50|debug [16266]: Processing a new request line Sat Jul 1 18:17:29 2006|172.29.5.50|debug [16266]: got: GET http://apt-proxy:3142/us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/restricted/source/Sources.bz2 HTTP/1.1 Sat Jul 1 18:17:29 2006|172.29.5.50|debug [16266]: Processing a new request line Sat Jul 1 18:17:29 2006|172.29.5.50|debug [16266]: got: Host: apt-proxy:3142 Sat Jul 1 18:17:29 2006|172.29.5.50|debug [16266]: Processing a new request line Sat Jul 1 18:17:29 2006|172.29.5.50|debug [16266]: got: Cache-Control: max-age=0 Sat Jul 1 18:17:29 2006|172.29.5.50|debug [16266]: Processing a new request line Sat Jul 1 18:17:29 2006|172.29.5.50|debug [16266]: got: User-Agent: Debian APT-HTTP/1.3 Sat Jul 1 18:17:29 2006|172.29.5.50|debug [16266]: Processing a new request line Sat Jul 1 18:17:29 2006|172.29.5.50|debug [16266]: got: Sat Jul 1 18:17:29 2006|172.29.5.50|debug [16266]: new long filename: http:__apt-proxy:3142_us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper_restricted_source_Sources.bz2 Sat Jul 1 18:17:29 2006|172.29.5.50|debug [16266]: looking for /var/cache/apt-cacher/packages/http:__apt-proxy:3142_us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper_restricted_source_Sources.bz2 Sat Jul 1 18:17:29 2006|172.29.5.50|debug [16266]: known as index file: Sources.bz2 Sat Jul 1 18:17:29 2006|172.29.5.50|debug [16266]: Entering critical section : file download decission Sat Jul 1 18:17:29 2006|172.29.5.50|debug [16266]: file does not exist or so, creating it Sat Jul 1 18:17:29 2006|172.29.5.50|debug [16266]: MISS Sat Jul 1 18:17:29 2006|172.29.5.50|debug [16266]: registred child process: 16276 Sat Jul 1 18:17:29 2006|172.29.5.50|debug [16276]: Exiting critical section Sat Jul 1 18:17:29 2006|172.29.5.50|debug [16276]: fetcher: try to fetch http://http://apt-proxy:3142/us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/restricted/source/Sources.bz2 Sat Jul 1 18:17:29 2006|172.29.5.50|debug [16276]: download agent: getting http://http://apt-proxy:3142/us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/restricted/source/Sources.bz2 Sat Jul 1 18:17:29 2006|172.29.5.50|debug [16276]: Get is back Sat Jul 1 18:17:29 2006|172.29.5.50|debug [16276]: Reporting error: 500 Sat Jul 1 18:17:29 2006|172.29.5.50|debug [16276]: Entering critical section : HTTP error report Sat Jul 1 18:17:29 2006|172.29.5.50|debug [16276]: Stopping reader: 16266 Sat Jul 1 18:17:29 2006|172.29.5.50|debug [16276]: Exiting critical section Sat Jul 1 18:17:29 2006|172.29.5.50|debug [16276]: fetcher exiting ** Affects: apt-cacher (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged Status: Unconfirmed -- apt-cacher gets confused by apt's changes to request full URI in HTTP https://launchpad.net/bugs/51555 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs