On Tuesday 03 of November 2020 01:35:58 Mike Bird via tde-devels wrote: > I don't have the bandwidth at home to emulate Felix so ... > > I ran tests of "apt clean; apt update; apt --download-only > install --install-recommends tde-trinity; apt clean" twice > each on three different VPSs, each in a different data center > in a different US state. Prior to testing the VPSs had no > X Windows and no TDE other than the keyring. Debian Buster. > Speeds for the TDE portion of the downloads appeared to be > roughly 10-35MBps (not bps). > > With TDE r14.0.x I encountered no download errors. > > I ran the six tests again, this time against TDE PSB. Again > no download errors on TDE but I did get one download failure > > one time from Debian: > > E: Failed to fetch > > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/poppler-data/poppler-data_0. >4.9-2_all.deb > > > Undetermined Error [IP: 208.80.154.15 80] > > E: Some files failed to download > > I conclude this is a network or apt problem rather than a > TDE problem. It occurs more frequently for Felix so it > might be a local router problem such as NAT table exhaustion. > > I looked at: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=stable;package=apt > and there are HUNDREDS of open bugs. I couldn't find one > that matched this but I don't see any point in trying to > report an intermittent issue that might be a communication > problem rather than an apt bug. > > I don't think there's anything more that TDE can do. The > workaround is to hit up-arrow then enter if download fails. > > --Mike > ____________________________________________________ If this happens frequently for Felix, it may be a good idea to split the update so that first apt calls "apt upgrade --download-only", and only when everything is successfully downloaded does the package upgrade continue. Cheers -- Slávek
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