Bug#90418: Fwd: base: Parsing of apt.conf with unquoted values causes problems.

[Dale Kemp <dalek@motherwell.com.au>]

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Subject: base: Parsing of apt.conf with unquoted values causes problems.
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 17:23:20 +0800
From: Dale Kemp <dalek@localhost.localdomain>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org


Package: base
Version: 20010320
Severity: normal


-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux Storm 2.4.2 #3 Fri Feb 23 15:37:37 WST 2001 i686
 unknown

On upgrading apt in potato to the latest version in woody 0.5.3. The apt-get
update process broke. After trying various things I found that my Acquire::
http::Timeout value was not quoted, this caused apt to fail with messages
 like:

# apt-get update
Err http://planetmirror.com potato/main Packages
  Connection failed
Err http://planetmirror.com potato/main Release
  Connection failed




Putting the value for timeout in quotes

eg. Timeout "120";

and not Timeout 120;

Fixed the problem.

Either apt should report problems with the config file or be changed to
accept configurations with unquoted values.

Regards,

-- Dale Kemp (dalek@motherwell.com.au)

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