Bug#313188: approx: does not support Packages.bz2 files

2005-06-14 Thread Eric Cooper
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

Bug#313188: approx: does not support Packages.bz2 files

2005-06-12 Thread Flavio Stanchina
Package: approx Version: 1.15 Severity: normal Tags: patch I'm using "secure" apt 0.6, which AFAICS prefers Packages.bz2 files to the usual Packages.gz files. gc_approx doesn't know about .bz2 files and thus might completely purge the repository. This is somewhat related to #310399 -- I think it