Re: [Apt-proxy-users] apt-get not updating progress

[Chris H. <chr...@ni...>]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 04:44:43PM +0100, Ashley Collins wrote:
> I've just installed apt-proxy. When running apt-get pointed at it, the 
> progress doesn't seem to update. I can see new packages being downloaded in 
> the apt-proxy log, but apt-get shows the first file it started with.
> 
> The total number of bytes next to the package name in apt-get is updating and 
> the end of session stats are also updating.
> 
> Has anyone come across this before? I'm using unstable.

Unfortunately, yes.  You just missed a thread on debian-devel discussing
apt-proxy in general.

Jason Thomas wrote [1]:
> apt-proxy currently has a problem because of the new pools system, it
> use to parse the Packages.gz files to figure out file sizes so that it
> could stream the download back to the client. This bug causes it to
> stream the data but not tell you how much you want, basically hitting
> control-C in apt and starting it again will get the file down after
> rsync has finished downloading the file.

There are several related bugs about the same problem.  The most imformative
is #80839.  The sourceforge CVS contains an attempt at a fix, but it doesn't
work completely for me.  Apt now moves on to the next file as it should, but
it reports new errors instead.

Stephen Rothwell wrote [2]:

> I have been working on apt-proxy recently and have a version that we have
> been using for a while with some success.  Could you try
> http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/apt-proxy and let me know if you have any
> better luck.  If you have GNU tail and stat installed, it will use them to
> advantage.   Note that the development environment is Linux and bash, so
> there may be some dependencies that I am unaware of - altough I am told it
> will work using ash as a shell.

I haven't tried it out yet.

Chris Halls

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200108/msg01464.html
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200108/msg01480.html