this problem seems almost certainly rooted with pdiff acquisition: root@copelandia:/# apt-get -o Acquire::PDiffs=false update Get:1 http://ftp.se.debian.org sid Release.gpg [378B] Get:2 http://ftp.se.debian.org sid Release [79.6kB] Get:3 http://ftp.se.debian.org sid/main Packages [5779kB] Fetched 5859kB in 6s (945kB/s) root@copelandia:/# apt-get -o Acquire::PDiffs=true update Get:1 http://ftp.se.debian.org sid Release.gpg [378B] Get:2 http://ftp.se.debian.org sid Release [79.6kB] Get:3 http://ftp.se.debian.org sid/main Packages/DiffIndex [2038B] Get:4 http://ftp.se.debian.org sid/main Packages [5779kB] Get:5 http://ftp.se.debian.org sid/main Packages [5779kB] and hang. also, note that 4 and 5 are the same URL. i've attempted to rebuild apt to investigate, but it currently f's tbfs for me right now (#359035?). my hunch is that pdiffs is broken for the case where it decides to download the packages file entirely, and somehow queues the same file twice. maybe this is the cause of the mysterious gzip/0-byte file problems seen earlier and fixed with a rather awkward hack. sean
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