[Bug 1027801] Re: Packages.gz not found because instead searching for Packages only

[Szabolcs Feczak]

I was trying to loop mount the wubi iso to offload my network bandwidth and install some packages
from there 
I have followed this guide 
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Offline/Repository
and ran into the problem that the iso only contained .gz files for Package list

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Title:
  Packages.gz not found because instead searching for Packages only

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  apt-get update gives a warning (not only apt-get: synaptic or all
  other packet managing tools too):

  W: Failed to fetch
  http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/multiverse/binary-
  amd64/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 141.30.13.20 80]

  This warning is ok, since "Packages" doesn't exist at
  "http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/multiverse/binary-
  amd64/". "Packages.gz" (or Packages.bz2) do exist indeed. Two
  possibilities:

  1. The string "http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/multiverse/binary-amd64/Packages.gz" is exactly 3 characters to long for the defined buffer, thus shortened by ".gz".
  2. The Repository isn't correctly initialized, stating "Packages" instead of "Packages.gz" or "Packages.bz2" to load.

  Since all other repositories are loaded and look the same (and
  defining a new repository holding the very same files than this ony,
  but with a shorter path makes it load) I am tending to the first
  possibility ...

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: apt 0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10.2
  Uname: Linux 3.4.6 x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Jul 23 09:56:45 2012
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
   TERM=screen-bce
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: apt
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-07-16 (6 days ago)

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