Bug#316337: apt-get update uses bzip on Packages.gz when no .bz2 is available
severity 316337 normal
thanks
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 10:03:50AM +0200, Jan De Luyck wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.6.38
> Severity: important
>
> When running apt-get update on the sources below, I get the following problem:
>
> Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/../project/experimental/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2)
>
> Which states that apt tried to use bzip2 on a .gz file. The Packages.gz file is okay when downloaded manually and gunzipped.
That's odd...it may be that the error message is misleading, though. Did
you try downloading the .bz2 file and testing it?
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- mdz
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