apt-get uses an unreliable transfer protocol
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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apt (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
I tried to "sudo apt-get update" on a clean Ubuntu Gnome 13.10 using an unreliable mobile Internet connection. The goal was to upgrade to Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 beta.
The connection works for a minute and then dissapears, then comes back.
If the partial downloaded index files are changed, there is no check that they are correctly downloaded from the server (no date stamp, size) and I got the error:
W: GPG error: http://
following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 40976EAF437D05B5 Ubuntu
Archive Automatic Signing Key <email address hidden>
After cleaning up "/var/lib/
There need to be a timeout (20s) and retry (many). Even looking up must have retries. There need to be a check for changed index files.
Then the goal was to issue "sudo apt-get upgrade" and then upgrade to 14.04 beta. With this I haven't succeded yet.
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
tags: | removed: release-upgrader-core |
tags: | added: utopic |
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added: saucy removed: utopic |
I subscribed and added the release-upgrader tag.
I use only wired connections so I've never been able to test that aspect of the release upgrade but I'd always assumed that a check would be run for a wired connection before beginning the upgrade.
If Brian Murray is reading I'll bet he'd know :^)