Re: 'apt update' failure, me or repository?

[mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com>]

On 2019-10-17 09:54, Curt wrote:
> On 2019-10-16, Art Sackett <asackett@artsackett.com> wrote:
> > For any who've found this thread by searching for the problem they're
> > having, the workaround is to create the file
> > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99useragent and populate it with:
> >
> > Acquire
> > {
> >   http::User-Agent "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) 
> > Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0";
> > };
>
> By what mental procedure did you arrive at that workaround? It
> doesn't seem to /coule de source/, at least for me.

Is possible that external network issue was a problem that time not user 
action resolved
the thing to do would be to remove 99useragent and see if original issue 
returns.

mick

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