synaptic reload takes forever

[Brendan Miller]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:27 AM, David Fox<dfox94085 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Brendan Miller<catphive at catphive.net> wrote:
>> Downloading and installing packages works in a reasonable amount of
>> time, but reloading takes at least an hour, and synaptic completely
>> freazes up during that time.
>
> Why do you have a debian unstable repository on a ubuntu system?

I don't know, you tell me. This is what Ubuntu 64 installed with from
the cd. I certainly haven't been trying to point it at debian repos.
I've attached my sources list to the end of the mail.

Here is the version of apt-get I have:
catphive at catphive-ubuntu:~$ apt-get --version
apt 0.7.20.2ubuntu6 for amd64 compiled on Apr 17 2009 04:25:25
Supported modules:
*Ver: Standard .deb
*Pkg:  Debian dpkg interface (Priority 30)
 S.L: 'deb' Standard Debian binary tree
 S.L: 'deb-src' Standard Debian source tree
 Idx: Debian Source Index
 Idx: Debian Package Index
 Idx: Debian Translation Index
 Idx: Debian dpkg status file

Probably they accidentally pulled a bad version of apt-get into
ubuntu. Maybe with some hard coded references with ftp.debian.org that
causes it to pull debian repo data and have to do some weird
conversion.

Maybe x64 specific?

Overall, my distro works, so obviously it isn't actually *installing*
debian packages, as those would presumably mostly break.

>
> Is the slowdown only happening because of the conversion? I wonder
> what could be happening, what processing has to be done at that stage.
>
> What happens during a normal aptitude update? I switched over to the
> command line method early on, simply because the gui package manager
> at that time (mandrake) was just too dog-slow for my pokey (at that
> time) little system, consumed too many resources, etc. It turned me
> off graphical package managers. Still, I would think that today's more
> modern systems wouldn't have that issue, but I've just gotten used to
> the command line.

apt-get update does the same thing as

My sources:

# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 9.04 _Jaunty Jackalope_ - Release amd64
(20090420.1)]/ jaunty main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted
deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates main restricted
deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty universe
deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty universe
deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates universe
deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty multiverse
deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty multiverse
deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates multiverse
deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-backports main
restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-backports main
restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository.
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu jaunty partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu jaunty partner

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-security multiverse