Hi On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 08:48:38AM +0100, AreYouLoco? wrote: > I am sending this email to all Maintainers of apt package and to > deity@lists.debian.org list. Please help! It is really not necessary to sent the mail to individual uploaders if you sent it to the maintainer (which is deity@) already. Everyone capable of answering (and more) will be behind deity@, while uploaders is a rather limited set of people with the rights to upload the package, which are not necessarily maintaining the package (anymore). Just as a random data point: The guy (me) who implemented the config option you mention later on is not an uploader … Also, it is not a bad idea to ask debian-user@ for support first as the maintainer is mainly a developer and not a supporter (there can be overlap, but it doesn't need to). This list exists in a bunch of language versions, too, in case english isn't your native language, which can be quite handy as developer lists tend to be english-only. > I am fighting with live-build for some long time and i need to force > somehow apt-get update to download only compressed Packages file. > Because as you can see: Well, if you have problems with live-build, you might want to talk to their support-lists instead… anyway: apt is downloading compressed files by default anyway and only as the very last resort tries the uncompressed one as this is usually very big and not available (but it is for local mirrors there it might make sense…). > There is no uncompressed Packages file on server and apt in not looking > for other automaticly. As said, are you sure? apt says "Packages", but what it actually does is looking at the (In)Release file to know which are 'available' (in terms of for which we have checksums) which are probably xz or bz2 and gz – and it will try those. You can see it with the debug flags like Debug::pkgAcquire::Worker or Debug::Acquire::http if you like. If the download of all compressed files fail it will try the uncompressed one and if that one fails, too, it reports an error, so that errors tend to be reported for uncompressed files even though we tried the compressed files before and just failed "silently". So, please tell us first why you believe that apt is trying uncompressed files only and we might be able to tell you why it does it (if it does). Best regards David Kalnischkies
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