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Re: Debian2.2 Won't install



> I'm only guessing here since I haven't looked at the src, but I've 
> noticed a couple of times that if the fetch of base fails and then
> you retry, it seems as tho the install doesn't overwrite the failed
> fetch but actually appends to it. It's not consistent but it gives

Indeed netfetch will try to do HTTP/1.1 style continuations if it can
and append to the file. Unfortunately the code is not very robust, and
there are a number of proxies out there that seem rather broken wrt to
HTTP/1.1 range headers. 

randolph
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