Thanks for the bug report and patch. I've incorporated it and it will appear in the next release.
Until then, you might want to disable the cron job that runs gc_approx, or modify it to something like gc_approx -k | grep -v .bz2 | xargs rm so it doesn't purge your Packages.bz2 files -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]