Bug#106401: wish list bug regarding flowles woody installation
Package: apt
Version: any
This is a wish list bug.
I've stumbled more than once over it when installing customer systems
and test systems for my lab.
here is the relevant part of my posting about a problem with the
new woody boot disks and apt:
Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:06:29AM +0200 wrote:
> David Whedon wrote:
>
> > Hi Robert,
> >
> >
> >>After correcting my fat fingering and downloading the "Release" and
"Release.gpg"
> >>file from the ftp site I now get the message
> >>
> >>"Malformed release file /target/usr/woody/Release"
> >>
> >>
> > wierd
>
>
> I got the problem here when setting up a new test system what worked
for me was using
>
> ftp2.de.debian.org for the initial install and after the reboot putting
> Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth "0";
> in /etc/apt/apt.conf
>
> then I was able to use my local mirror (http mirror running on a
Roxen 1.33 Server)
>
> Maybe it would be a good idea to put the setting as a default in the
> apt.conf file and later test if it works without that setting.
I request to use the
Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth "0";
setting as default for apt and put some info about higher values
of the Pipeline-Depth somewhere in the apt documentation.
This is a real show stopper for users not experienced with apt.
greets Uwe
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