Mark Robinson wrote: > I haven't seen exactly this effect for quite some time. > > Every now and again I see a corruption of an index file causing bzip to > fail. Sorry, I am in some misunderstanding because of last phrase. Do you see this bug now, or this bug has gone and other appeared, or something else? > I suspect that this is either dodgy mirrors or a dodgy proxy operated by > my isp. > > Further I think this is related to the sporadic and reasonably common > gpg errors which I see on the package lists and the occasional MD5 error. > > I wonder if these errors could be trapped and the request them be > repeated with the appropriate options to force the proxy to fetch the > original file from the mirror again. This would require some work... Personally, I would not play with apt code to fix 3rd-party bugs though. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com Ukrainian C++ developer, Debian APT contributor
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