RE: Bug#55820: apt grossly misestimates download
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Ross Boylan wrote:
> Yes (depending on your definition of telling). Every time I run apt I get
> lots of error messages, some of which may relate to the situation I
> described in my initial report and later in this note (the messages things
> like unable to find repository, as well as other more serious-sounding ones.
> I can't recall the specifics, and would love to know the best way to capture
> them). I ignored them in the sense that I kept going.
There is a program called script that can capture messages like these for
you.
> Also, I'm pretty sure that it said it was going to get 6 packages, and then
> got 9. It may have been after 6 that the overall progress bar stopped.
> (Numbers approximate).
There is a buglet where APT double downloads in some weird error cases I
haven't had time to fix yet. Only one other person has seen that.
> Also, if the thing I am trying to do is just something that shouldn't work,
> let me know. I'll stop trying to do it! I downloaded a bunch of .deb
> files, some to my local hard drive and some burned to CD. I preserved the
> directory structure of the original archive. However, control files like
Ik. I hope you are using apt-cdrom.
Jason
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