Bug#178854: Not wishlist item, this actually stops apt-get from working
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 09:34:10AM +0100, James Youngman wrote:
> 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).
apt has never supported HTTP redirects, so either this mirror has never
worked, or they have changed their configuration so as to break things for
users of the mirror. You should contact the mirror administrator.
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- mdz
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