Bug#191309: apt: non-blocking error with http method on nfs root

[<ryan@stat.berkeley.edu>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: normal

I created a small debian system using debootstrap and apt-get and moved it to a
Solaris Sparc NFS server. When I chroot to it from a Linux client and run
'apt-get dist-upgrade', it reports:

  Get:14 http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu sid/main libssl0.9.7 0.9.7b-2 [2002kB]
  FATAL -> Could not set non-blocking flag Bad file descriptor
  E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
  E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object

apt-get's update stage works fine. I changed the method in the sources.lst to
ftp, ran update, and then dist-upgrade works fine. An 'apt-get install' of
specific packages via the http method also ran fine.

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux scf-pc4.Berkeley.edu 2.4.19 #1 Wed Oct 30 16:49:05 PST 2002 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6          2.3.1-17       GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-17      The GNU stdc++ library