unable to fetch new meta-release-development file through otherwise functional apt-cacher

[Ernst Kloppenburg]

Binary package hint: update-manager

problem: running "update-manager -d" on an intrepid system
- does not offer the upgrade to jaunty
- does not display an error message

the apt-cacher log has an error message:

Wed Apr 15 17:46:17 2009|warn [9855]: POSIX syntax [: :] belongs inside character classes in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(Index|Packages.gz|Packages.bz2|Release|Release.gpg|Sources.gz|Sources.bz2|Contents-.+\.gz|pkglist.*\.bz2|release$|release\..*|srclist.*\.bz2|Translation-.+\.bz2|[:alpha:] <-- HERE *\.tar\.gz\.gpg$)$/ at /usr/share/apt-cacher//apt-cacher-lib.pl line 360.

fetching of packages through the apt-cacher works without problems

setting http_proxy to point to another proxy makes "update-manager -d" work again, as this obviously overrides the proxy configuration in /etc/apt/apt.conf.

I will append apt.conf and apt-cacher.conf.

update-manager should somehow complain if it can not access the ressources it needs to.

[Ernst Kloppenburg (ernst-kloppenburg)]

the above problem is due to a bug in apt-cacher:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291606

That bug is fixed, but only in jaunty...

Nevertheless update-manager should complain if it fails downloading something.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks, it should in this case show a message that it failed to download.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The bug in apt-cacher has been resolved in Jaunty and a package exists in the proposed pocket for Intrepid.

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

Cleaning up. Is this still an issue in the current stable release?
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[Ernst Kloppenburg (ernst-kloppenburg)]

the bug was fixed back then