Bug#218760: marked as done (apt-get update doesn't check timestamps on already loaded "unstable" package files)
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From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@samba-tng.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: apt-get update doesn't check timestamps on already loaded "unstable" package
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Package: apt
Version: 0.5.14
Severity: minor
over a 56k modem link, do an apt-get update, and i wait half an hour:
Hit ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org stable/non-free Release
Fetched 1287kB in 23m19s (919B/s)
Failed to fetch
ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
Data socket timed out [IP: 81.91.108.243 21]
Reading Package Lists... Done
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.
so i do an apt-get update again, thinking that only the one file will
be retried, the rest having already been downloaded.
NOPE! the WHOLE lot of the unstable files are reloaded.
is this right?
does it mean that the time on my computer is wrong? (i may not have
timezones set correctly)
or does it mean that there is a bug?
because the _stable_ packages are _never_ reloaded unless i comment
them out and do an apt-get update and then re-comment them back in
again.
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::ftp "";
APT::ftp::Passive "";
APT::ftp::Passive::ftp.uk.debian.org "false";
APT::Cache-Limit "100000000";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
Acquire "";
Acquire::ftp "";
Acquire::ftp::Passive "true";
Acquire::ftp::ProxyLogin "";
Acquire::ftp::ProxyLogin:: "USER ftp@ftp.uk.debian.org";
Acquire::ftp::ProxyLogin:: "PASS none@";
Acquire::ftp::Timeout "120";
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
#deb http://people.debian.org/~remi potato updates
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux highfield 2.4.22-1-686 #6 Sat Oct 4 14:09:08 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.3.2-0pre2 GCC support library
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.2-0pre2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
-- no debconf information
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From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@samba-tng.org>,
218760-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#218760: apt-get update doesn't check timestamps on already loaded "unstable" package files
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On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 03:55:43PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> so i do an apt-get update again, thinking that only the one file will
> be retried, the rest having already been downloaded.
>
>
> NOPE! the WHOLE lot of the unstable files are reloaded.
>
> is this right?
>
> does it mean that the time on my computer is wrong? (i may not have
> timezones set correctly)
>
> or does it mean that there is a bug?
Probably your mirror was updated since you downloaded the lists previously,
and the files really were different. Unstable changes every day.
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- mdz
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