[Aptitude-devel] Bug#351239: aptitude: should re-fetch package list if gzip fails

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 - moreinfo confirmed
Control: close -1


2015-11-16 19:55 To Axel Beckert:
>Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
>
>Hi,
>
>2013-02-25 22:11 Axel Beckert:
>>Control: tag -1 - moreinfo + confirmed
>>Control: found -1 0.6.8.2-1
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Axel Beckert wrote:
>>>> Now when I try to update the package list again, aptitude doesn't
>>>> replace the Packages.gz that's already there (probably because it
>>>> is up to date, and the download didn't abort with an error).
>>>> Instead, it tries gzip again, which fails again.
>>>
>>>I can't remember having had such an issue during the past few years
>>>despite I encounter incomplete package list downloads occassionally.
>>
>>It doesn't seem to happen every time a download or uncompress fails,
>>but I ran into this issue this weekend on Sid for three Package lists
>>at the same time. It wasn't a gunzip fail though, but a BADSIG fail.
>>The symptoms were the same, though.
>>
>>IIRC even "apt-get update" wasn't able to fix the issues either, so
>>it's likely not an aptitude-specific issue. I though haven't found any
>>according bug report against apt which sounds similar.
>>
>>I solved the issue finally by manually removing the according files
>>from /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/.
>
>If somebody runs into this and sees this bug report, please paste the
>error so the problem is easier to pinpoint.
>
>I suppose that this does not happen very often now with the pdiffs.

No more info/follow-up for years, and the problem doesn't seem to be
with aptitude, so I am closing the bug report now.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>