Bug#178854: Not wishlist item, this actually stops apt-get from working
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.28.6
Followup-For: Bug #178854
I understand how you could view this as a wishlist item, but the fact
is that when a repository returns a 302, the resulting set of
downloaded data files is such that it is not possible to upgrade any
packages. Here is an example:-
# apt-get update
[...]
Fetched 20.3MB in 6m2s (56.0kB/s)
Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Unable to fetch file, server said '/pub/java/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz: No such file or directory '
Failed to fetch http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/source/Sources.gz 302 Found
Failed to fetch http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/contrib/source/Sources.gz 302 Found
Failed to fetch http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/non-free/source/Sources.gz 302 Found
Reading Package Lists... Done
[...]
orbital:/var/lib/apt# cd /tmp
orbital:/tmp# mkdir x
orbital:/tmp# apt-get source passwd
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://ftp.tux.org sid/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.tux.org_pub_java_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Could not open file /var/lib/apt/lists/www.mirror.ac.uk_sites_ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_source_Sources - open (2 No such file or directory)
So, you will notice that the fact that a 302 was returned by
www.mirror.ac.uk ensures that I can no longer install a source package
(at all).
www.mirror.ac.uk isn't just some two-bit operatin, it's the FTP mirror
site for the whole of the UK Higher Education sector (i.e. all the
British universities).
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Cache-Limit "12582912";
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";
DPkg::Post-Invoke "";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/bin/debsums ]; then /usr/bin/debsums --generate=nocheck -sp /var/cache/apt/archives; fi";
Acquire "";
Acquire::Queue-Mode "host";
Acquire::http "";
Acquire::http::Timeout "120";
Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth "5";
Acquire::ftp "";
Acquire::ftp::Passive "true";
Acquire::ftp::Proxy "";
Acquire::ftp::Proxy::Passive "true";
-- /etc/apt/preferences --
Package: grip
Pin: release a=stable
Pin: release a=woody
Pin-Priority: -10
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin: release a=testing
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb http://security.debian.org testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org woody/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
# deb http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free
# deb http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
# deb http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
# deb http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free
deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian/ sid main non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-13 GCC support library
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.6-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
-- no debconf information
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