Package: approx Version: 2.8.0 Severity: important When APT is configured to use approx,
apt-get update ..often produces errors such as: Failed to fetch http://debcache:9999/debian-volatile/dists/etch/volatile/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 MD5Sum mismatch ..or: GPG error: http://debcache etch/volatile Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG EC61E0B0BBE55AB3 Debian-Volatile Archive Automatic Signing Key (4.0/etch) ..which can be due to approx receiving stale files from a transparent proxy. Some ISPs use transparent proxies without allowing their customers to opt-out. Configuring APT to go direct rather than via approx results in the same behaviour yet invoking commands such as: wget --no-cache http://security.debian.org/dists/etch/updates/Release -O /dev/null ..fixes the problem (until the next time the transparent proxy serves up a stale file). If approx could get curl to do the equivalent of --no-cache then this problem would go away forever. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-bpo.1-486 Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages approx depends on: ii adduser 3.102 Add and remove users and groups ii bzip2 1.0.3-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii curl 7.15.5-1etch1 Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS, FT ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libpcre3 6.7+7.4-4 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi ii lsb-base 3.1-23.2etch1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip approx recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
