Bug#140443: apt: broken on FTP socket timeouts
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
As it's Easter today, my DSL connection is slightly (?) unreliable.
Thus when I tried to do my usual "apt-get update", I got frequent
"data socket timed out".
Then on the next "apt-get update", at first it printed the last byte count of
the Package to be downloaded, but then it suddently resetted back to 0
and redownloaded to whole file.
Not so if you manage to Ctrl-C or kill apt-get update *before*
the "data socket timed out" happens.
Then it properly resumes file download at the byte count where it left off.
I assume that it has to do with time stamping of the package file.
My suspicion is that maybe a "data socket timed out" abort doesn't update
the downloaded file timestamp properly, whereas Ctrl-C or kill does.
Thus apt-get notices that there's a partial file and prints its byte count,
but an instant later it recognizes that the time stamp is incompatible
and proceeds with redownloading the whole file.
In short: the "data socket timed out" abort part should probably be fixed.
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