[Bug 1105873] Re: apt-get fails to check status of mirrors

[Quin Eirik]

Wanted to delete. No delete option?  Guess it is more of a inconvenience
then a bug.

** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

** Description changed:

- apt-get doesn't validate servers, and/or has far to long timeout.
- Should seriously do some logic if server, index or other core files is unreachable.
- 
- E.g.:
- 
-      1	~$ sudo apt-get install gnome-common
-      2	Reading package lists...
-      3	Building dependency tree...
-      4	Reading state information...
-      5	The following extra packages will be installed:
-      6	  autopoint
-      7	The following NEW packages will be installed:
-      8	  autopoint gnome-common
-      9	0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
-     10	Need to get 621 kB of archives.
-     11	After this operation, 883 kB of additional disk space will be used.
-     12	Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
-     13	WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
-     14	  autopoint gnome-common
-     15	Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
-     16   ^CExit code: 130
- 
- Warning of line 13 is presumably because auth. can't be downloaded.
- Going to line 16 - here it hangs "forever".
- 
- As there obviously is other mirrors - these are two bad and confusing
- faults.
- 
-      1	$ apt-get source gnome-terminal
-      2	Reading package lists... Done
-      3	Building dependency tree       
-      4	Reading state information... Done
-      5	NOTICE: 'gnome-terminal' packaging is maintained in the 'Bzr' version control system at:
-      6	http://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/gnome-terminal/ubuntu
-      7	Please use:
-      8	bzr branch http://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/gnome-terminal/ubuntu
-      9	to retrieve the latest (possibly unreleased) updates to the package.
-     10	Need to get 1,893 kB of source archives.
-     11	0% [Connecting to no.archive.ubuntu.com (130.239.18.138)]
-     12	...
-     13	0% [Waiting for headers]
- 
- Hangs on line 11, if you are lucky it enters line 13. Here is a complete
- halt.
- 
- And: why does it say "Please use: bzr branch http://code.launchpad.net
- /~ubuntu-desktop/gnome-terminal/ubuntu" when it is a git repo at
- git://git.gnome.org/gnome-terminal?
- 
- Further (not a bug per se, but still) - Why does it say
- "no.archive.ubuntu.com" when it is a Swedish server at the university of
- Umeå?
- 
- $ dig no.archive.ubuntu.com
- 
- ; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> no.archive.ubuntu.com
- ;; global options: +cmd
- ;; Got answer:
- ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 21573
- ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 0
- 
- ;; QUESTION SECTION:
- ;no.archive.ubuntu.com.		IN	A
- 
- ;; ANSWER SECTION:
- no.archive.ubuntu.com.	141	IN	CNAME	ftp.acc.umu.se.
- ftp.acc.umu.se.		141	IN	A	130.239.18.138
- ftp.acc.umu.se.		141	IN	A	130.239.18.137
- 
- ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
- umu.se.			52338	IN	NS	sunic.sunet.se.
- umu.se.			52338	IN	NS	ns1.umu.se.
- umu.se.			52338	IN	NS	dns.norrnod.se.
- umu.se.			52338	IN	NS	ns2.umu.se.
- 
- ;; Query time: 1 msec
- ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
- ;; WHEN: Sat Jan 26 05:46:56 2013
- ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 187
+ Deleted.

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Title:
  apt-get fails to check status of mirrors

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
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