apt-cacher-ng does not allow .o files to be downloaded

[Roger Hunwicks]

If you try to install a package that downloads a '.o' file, e.g. a binary firmware for a wireless card, via apt-cacher-ng it fails because the .o extension is not allowed:

sudo apt-get install firmware-b43legacy-installer b43-fwcutter
...
ERROR 403: Forbidden file type or location: http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o.

The solution, as reported in #227240, is to edit /etc/apt-cacher-ng/acng.conf and uncomment the PfilePattern setting and update part of the regular expression for extentions (|\.jigdo|\.template, etc.) to include "|\.o"
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ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120130)
Package: apt-cacher-ng 0.7.2-1ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-22.35-generic 3.2.14
Tags: precise
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

modified.conffile..etc.apt.cacher.ng.acng.conf: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.apt.cacher.ng.backends.ubuntu: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.apt.cacher.ng.security.conf: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.apt.cacher.ng.acng.conf: 2012-11-13T15:41:58.088162
mtime.conffile..etc.apt.cacher.ng.backends.ubuntu: 2012-05-28T12:04:25.573032
mtime.conffile..etc.apt.cacher.ng.security.conf: 2012-08-14T09:21:47.307735

[Roger Hunwicks (roger-tonic-solutions)]

apport information

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

apt-cacher-ng only pulls the .debs, why would it then be trying to download from downloads.openwrt.org?

Can you supply the full apt output?

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Ken, the full information to reproduce the problem was already given:

"If you try to install a package that downloads a '.o' file
[...]
sudo apt-get install firmware-b43legacy-installer b43-fwcutter"

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

That still only pulls .deb files. I assume you're saying that you're running apt-get on an openwrt box?

Is this still an issue? If so this will want sending upstream as nothing is going to happen in Launchpad.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Ken, thank you for your comment but you are mistaken on both accounts.

That package will do a download of binary firmware as reported by Roger. And upstream is already subscribed to this ticket and all other bug tickets in LP.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

ping Eduard

[Eduard Bloch (edi-gmx)]

Ok... since I have no idea about the rules of that files' storage I will just add .o type to the volatile set. See acng git, upstream/sid branch.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package apt-cacher-ng - 0.8.3-1

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apt-cacher-ng (0.8.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version
    + solves the expiration hickup with disappeared .bz2 file versions

 -- Eduard Bloch <email address hidden> Sat, 02 May 2015 17:20:16 +0200