On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Pete Harlan wrote: > I'm upgrading slink->potato. Each time I run 'apt-get dist-upgrade' > (after having initialy run 'apt-get update') it tries and fails to > grab a number of packages before giving up; each one looks like this:
99.9% chance that you are behind a satanic 'transparent' HTTP proxy that doesn't understand HTTP/1.1. Do two things 1) Confirm this, using a web site that shows your request IP address and verify that it is a cache 2) Phone your ISP and yell at them in loud angry tones until they upgrade the software and bitch at the vendor. 3) Make sure you are using a 0.3.x version of APT 4) Use APT's ftp method, you'll get better results if your cache is already this bad. or 4) Try setting acquire::http::pipeline-depth=0 Basically every 'transparent' web cache I've seen is pathetically bad, to the point that the people who make them need to be seriously wounded somehow :P Jason