merged from debian-sid

[apt.git] / apt-pkg / aptconfiguration.cc

diff --git a/apt-pkg/aptconfiguration.cc b/apt-pkg/aptconfiguration.cc
index 52f54073cbc0288e582a8ced0f2ccec7cbc15b9d..4b14e964a61e674daaa5b255bddfd47e3fc59a67 100644 (file)
--- a/apt-pkg/aptconfiguration.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/aptconfiguration.cc
@@ -69,6 +69,10 @@ const Configuration::getCompressionTypes(bool const &Cached) {
                types.push_back(*o);
        }
 
+       // default to preferring gzip, so that compressed indexes work
+       if (order.empty())
+               types.push_back("gz");
+
        // move again over the option tree to add all missing compression types
        ::Configuration::Item const *Types = _config->Tree("Acquire::CompressionTypes");
        if (Types != 0)