Re: approx: infinite loop during update, importing
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:09 +0000, "Sylvain Le Gall" <gildor@debian.org>
wrote:
> On 28-07-2009, whollygoat@letterboxes.org <whollygoat@letterboxes.org>
> wrote:
> > I've two questions re approx version 3.3.0 on
> > lenny i386. The first is, anybody else get
> > caught in an infinite loop updating the Packages
> > files? I've tried from localhost and a remote
> > machine. On both machines, running "aptitude
> > update" causes the Packages file to start
> > downloading (you can watch it grow with repeated
> > "find /var/cache/approx -type -f -ls"), then
> > after awhile the file disappears, and a few
> > seconds later appears once more continuing
> > to grow until it disappears again. In short, it
> > ain't working for me.
> >
>
> Using approx since three years, never seen such a behavior.
>
> You should check that:
> - you have enough space where the Package files is downloaded
Good call, but I'd already checked that. There is oodles of room.
> - your internet connection doesn't failed while downloading
Connection is fine.
> - you can download from the machine hosting approx the Package file,
> from internet without problem (e.g. using curl).
If I switch /etc/apt/sources.list back to pointing directly to
a debian mirror, the file downloads just fine. This is true
both from an remote machine, and from the machine on which I
am trying to build the approx package proxy. It is only
when the sources.list files (on the remote machine, or on
the machine hosting the approx repository) that the weird
incomplete download loop happens.
Thanks for the suggestions,
willy
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