Status: Require Status file.
#24717: apt dies early if one postinst/preinst dies
Status: Requires dpkg modifications
-#28184: apt could be smarter regarding mirrors
- Summary: Make use of redundant sources
- Status: 0.3.0 will likely do this, already the information for it is stored.
#25104: APT should retry failed downloads
Summary: FTP method has problems with busy servers
Status: The 0.3.0 ftp method should probably use the configuration mechanism
Summary: APT does not provide a way to download packages onto a
removable media for another computer
Status: 0.3.0 has substantially better support for this to the point
- that it is doable by using a seperate configuration file and
+ that it is doable by using a separate configuration file and
the -c option
#27601: srange errors from dselect
Summary: Couldn't locate an archive source
Status: Require status file
- Believed to be fixed in 0.1.9, was not reproducable w/ given
+ Believed to be fixed in 0.1.9, was not reproducible w/ given
status file
#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library
Status: New versions of APT in slink have been compiled with libstdc++2.9
#23984: apt: support for "no_proxy" would be nice
- Status: Planed to be integrated into the new methods via the configuration
+ Status: Planned to be integrated into the new methods via the configuration
file
Done - Use Acquire::http::proxy::host.com="DIRECT"
#25021: apt: Need some control over multiple connections
Status: Fix the man pages. This certainly will be done in 0.3.0
#24799: Some suggestions for the apt method in dselect
Summary: Wants to be able to specifiy -d from dselect
- Status: Likely a APT_OPTIONS enviornment variable will be created, -d can
+ Status: Likely a APT_OPTIONS environment variable will be created, -d can
be put there.
There is already an APT_CONFIG in 0.3, APT_OPTIONS may also
appear..
APT now sends a max age header. See the apt.conf(5)
#28172: HTTP Proxy cache refresh should be forced for corrupted packages
Summary: Some problem resulted in a corrupted package
- Status: I belive this reflects a deeper problem and the suggested solution
+ Status: I believe this reflects a deeper problem and the suggested solution
is only a band-aide patch. I intend to close this bug when #24685
is fixed with a configuration directive.
Use -o acquire::http::no-cache=true
#22892: Apt improvements
Summary: Bails if an index file can't be found
Status: Fixed in v3
-
+#28184: apt could be smarter regarding mirrors
+ Summary: Make use of redundant sources
+ Status: 0.3.0 will likely do this, already the information for it is stored.
+#27646: Apt: dpkg --merge-avail
+ Summary: Suggestion to call merge avail after each update operation
+ Status: Unlikely. The dpkg --print-avail functions should be obsoleted
+ by the apt-query program which should be written.
+ Use the dselect script, alias or something.
+#26663: rsync file access
+ Status: Unlikely, rsync does not provide the necessary support to be
+ a terribly good method. I do not intend any 'split mode'
+ support (ie a way to get Package files via rsync and .debs
+ via http)
+#27100: apt: Better support for project/experimental
+ Status: GUI Feature - Version selection and pinning
+ Honors the NotAutomatic flag
+#30643: base: apt-get update problems with http-/ftp-caches (i.e. squid)
+ Status: Fixed as best I can. Try the Acquire::http::No-Cache option.
+
-- Silly things
#26592: apt: Problems with ftpd in SunOS 5.6
#29903: apt-get insists onto sending a SIZE command
#23934: apt-get source <package>
#27190: apt: installing source packages (wishlist)
Status: Impossible to do without an index file for all source archives.
-#26663: rsync file access
- Status: Unlikely, rsync does not provide the necessary support to be
- a terribly good method. I do not intend any 'split mode'
- support (ie a way to get Package files via rsync and .debs
- via http)
#22551: apt: wish: use dist X iff pkg does not exist in dist Y
-#27100: apt: Better support for project/experimental
Status: GUI Feature - Version selection and pinning
-#27646: Apt: dpkg --merge-avail
- Summary: Suggestion to call merge avail after each update operation
- Status: Unlikely. The dpkg --print-avail functions should be obsoleted
- by the apt-query program which should be written.
#30237: apt: 0.1.9 checks dependencies against packages.gz
Summary: For packages with identical version numbers APT prefers
to use the archive index files
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