Bug#634669: apt: unable to determine failed source from update messages
Package: apt
Version: 0.8.10.3+squeeze1
Severity: normal
apt-get update prints only the server and the release directory of the
downloaded package lists.
When multiple package sources are mirrored on the same server it is
impossible to tell what source failed to download.
debian security and debian backports work around this issue by placing
the package list in specially named release directory which can then be
recognized in the apt output but some other package authors that publish
debian repositories are less careful and name the release directory
after the Debian release, just like the Debian main repository does.
It is then impossible to tell apart these repositories and the Debian
main repository in the apt output when downloaded from the same mirror
server.
-- Package-specific info:
-- (/etc/apt/preferences present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (410, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental'), (111, 'oldstable'), (107, 'natty-updates'), (107, 'natty')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-rc3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii gnupg 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.6.1-1 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.6.1-1 GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
ii apt-doc 0.8.10.3+squeeze1 Documentation for APT
ii aptitude 0.6.3-3.2 terminal-based package manager (te
ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.11 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
pn python-apt <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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