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

[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/.

		Regards, Axel
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