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Re: aptitude update "BADSIG" Error (getting silly now)



On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 03:34:12AM +0000, Nick Boyce <nick@glimmer.demon.co.uk> was heard to say:
> I wrote:
>
> > Two further inferences are :
> >
>> (1) the aptitude code isn't checking the exit status from 'wget' (I  
>> assume it uses wget).
>>
>> (2) the wget operation is in fact asynchronous, and by the time I rerun 
>> - 5 seconds later - the wget for 'Release' has by then completed. This  
>> is just a wild guess, and may be way off-target.
>
> Now I think about it a bit more I realise aptitude almost certainly  
> *isn't* using wget ... the proxy specification is in apt.conf, not  
> .wgetrc.  Must be own code ....

  Yes, in methods/http.cc.  The code that manages the overall download
process is in apt-pkg/acquire*.cc.

  Daniel


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