On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 01:38:52PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > Still, the Packages files should only be removed after no software in > our stable distribution depends on it. If you remove the Packages file > from unstable now you will break apt-proxy (and perhaps other tools > too).
Does apt-proxy use Packages? In my tests, it always seems to use Packages.gz, even for rsync. Or maybe I am getting confused between requested file by client and the file downloaded by apt-proxy? pbuilder does seem to require downloading Packages, not Packages.gz. Why? Is this a debootstrap bug? scrooge:/home/bam/source/debian/amavis/amavis-20020517# pbuilder create --basetgz base-unstable.tgz --distribution unstable W: /root/.pbuilderrc does not exist Distribution is unstable. Building the build environment -> running debootstrap I: Retrieving http://snoopy.apana.org.au:8081/debian/dists/unstable/Release I: Validating /var/cache/pbuilder/build/8772/./var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_unstable_Release I: Retrieving http://snoopy.apana.org.au:8081/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages This means it has to download the entire uncompressed file, when the compressed file is already cached by apt-proxy. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>