Public bug reported: Binary package hint: apt
Lot of dapper users contacted me that they fail to download Packages.gz from my repo that worked perferctly before without any trouble. deb-src http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~ach/kubuntu/dapper ./ They got the err msg: Failed to fetch http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~ach/kubuntu/dapper/./Packages.gz 403 Forbidden Failed attempt were logged by apache2 as: ... "GET http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~ach/kubuntu/dapper/./Release HTTP/1.1" 403 1096 "-" "Debian APT-HTTP/1.3" wget downloaded the Packages.gz without problem, even for installation were apt-get failed. >From apache log I saw others (including my dapper installations) sucessfully >downloading the pkgs list. It turned out that the system that were not able to use the dapper repo had: Acquire::http::Proxy "false"; in /etc/apt/apt.conf. Removing or commenting out. Makes the problem disappear. Affected user did not themself add the Acquire::http::Proxy setting as they told me. I assume some debconf or whatever config added it. Looks like apt-get is trying to use proxy feature even when it is set to false. Achim ** Affects: apt (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- dapper: apt-get tries to use the repository apache server as a proxy with Acquire::http::Proxy "false" https://launchpad.net/bugs/80999 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
