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From: Dale Kemp <dalek@motherwell.com.au>
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Subject: base: Parsing of apt.conf with unquoted values causes problems.
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 17:23:20 +0800
From: Dale Kemp <dalek@localhost.localdomain>
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-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux Storm 2.4.2 #3 Fri Feb 23 15:37:37 WST 2001 i686
unknown
On upgrading apt in potato to the latest version in woody 0.5.3. The apt-get
update process broke. After trying various things I found that my Acquire::
http::Timeout value was not quoted, this caused apt to fail with messages
like:
# apt-get update
Err http://planetmirror.com potato/main Packages
Connection failed
Err http://planetmirror.com potato/main Release
Connection failed
Putting the value for timeout in quotes
eg. Timeout "120";
and not Timeout 120;
Fixed the problem.
Either apt should report problems with the config file or be changed to
accept configurations with unquoted values.
Regards,
-- Dale Kemp (dalek@motherwell.com.au)
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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>
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I, have a better theory.
While you were futzing with your configuration file someone rebooted your
transparent proxy server and the server began to behave correctly.
Observe how the quotes have no effect on the parsing:
wakko{jgg}~#echo "timeout 120;" > /tmp/t
wakko{jgg}~#apt-config -c /tmp/t dump 2>&1 | grep -i timeout
timeout "120";
wakko{jgg}~#echo "timeout \"120\";" > /tmp/t
wakko{jgg}~#apt-config -c /tmp/t dump 2>&1 | grep -i timeout
timeout "120";
Jason
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