Re: Bug#35737: apt: Download speed and/or download time remaining are broken
On Thu, 8 Jan 1970, Steve Mayer wrote:
> Using apt-get dist-upgrade, I've noticed that the b/s rate cycles between
> 0 and 1 although I can see that I'm getting around 5.2K-5.5K transfer rates.
> This of course leads to outrageous "download time remaining" values; e.g
> 1545d 15h etc...
Actually I know what the problem is, look at the date on your message, it
is in 1970, the times returned from gettimeofday will be negative and
decreasing (or somesuch foolishness).
APT does not work so well with times near or close to the epoch - I don't
consider this a bug.
Jason
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