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  1. Bug #948461
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 948461

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote : Re: [Bug 948461] Re: apt-get hashsum/size mismatch due caused by swapped local file names

On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Ben Howard wrote:

> Scott,
>
> I can confirm that "-o=Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth=0" appears to fix
> the problem. We'll need to look at putting that configuration option
> into the cloud-images.

Well.... thats not really a complete fix though.
 * existing images do not have that setting in them, and they will have to
   'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' to *get* that setting (whch can
   fail).
 * other images out there would not have this setting, and would just
   start to fail when we switch DNS records to S3 mirrors.
 * other people building images would need to know they need to do this.
   (this could be alleviated by it being a file laid down by a common
   package like cloud-init, but even then, we'd have to SRU the fix
   to old releases.)

I'm really not sure what to do. We dont want EC2 laden with "gotchas"
that only work if you use our special images. While I certainly want our
images to work, I don't want to just make like for difficult for others
who are not using them.