It's been a while, and I've made some tests. This happens not only in Gutsy Server, but also in GUI Hardy 8.04 with Synaptic and all the updates.
The problem occurs only if using proxy-server, both when using ~/.bashrc or apt.conf.d to set the proxy. The sources.list is a pretty general one, i haven't made any changes to it. I tried to experiment, and leave only a couple of lines there, but the results were negative, proving that it's not the sources.list case. Also, not only the Release.gpg file is downloaded thousands of times. Rarely, but also present, much larger files, like Packages.gz are being downloaded many-many times. And as I pay for the bandwith, this is really disturbing. Turning of the proxy completely solves the problem, but i can turn it off only for testing purposes. The proxy server is built with "Kerio WinRoute", and I think the problem lies within this piece of software. But apt (and also Synaptic) still lets itself download the files for thousands of times, which is not nice. The complete contents of the /etc/apt directory are attached. ** Attachment added: "apt.tar.bz2" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16296656/apt.tar.bz2 -- Apt-get update is almost endless in Gutsy Server https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221884 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
