Re: apt hangs for ever

[Andrew Vaughan <ajv-lists@netspace.net.au>]

On Monday 27 November 2006 11:55, Brian May wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is this a bug in apt?
>
> pbuilder update --override-config --configfile
> /tmp/pbuilder-local.SvMNy19452 W: /home/brian/.pbuilderrc does not exist
> Upgrading for distribution etch
> Building the build Environment
>  -> extracting base tarball [/var/cache/pbuilder/base-etch.tgz]
>  -> creating local configuration
>  -> copying local configuration
>  -> mounting /proc filesystem
>  -> mounting /dev/pts filesystem
>  -> policy-rc.d already exists
>   -> Installing apt-lines
> Refreshing the base.tgz
>  -> upgrading packages
> Get:1 http://ftp.au.debian.org etch Release.gpg [378B]
> Get:2 http://ftp.au.debian.org etch Release [74.4kB]
> Get:3 http://ftp.au.debian.org etch/main Packages/DiffIndex [2038B]
> Get:4 http://ftp.au.debian.org etch/main Packages [5579kB]
> Get:5 http://ftp.au.debian.org etch/main Packages [5579kB]
> 99% [5 Packages gzip 0]
>  (hangs for ever)
>
> I have tried waiting for it to timeout, but it doesn't.
>

Don't know whether its related, I stopped using ftp.au.debian.org.  IIRC it 
was replying to package requests with a 302 redirect, which apt-proxy 
seemed to be unable to handle.

Is this a 302 redirect something debian package management/archive mirroring 
tools are expected to handle, or are mirrors not expected to use redirects?

ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/ also seems to be intermittent partially updated.  I 
wonder whether they're mirroring from ftp.au.debian.org, and also having 
problems with the 302 responses. 

HTH
Andrew