I wrote a web-app for downloading packages + dependencies.

[kaens]

well, when you do apt-get update, you download a list of available packages and their versions..

Oh, yes. It uses those, if you're referring to the files in /var/lib/apt/lists.

anyway, browsing through launchpad i found it how it worked, quite clever

this should come as an option directly through apt-get

say: apt-get pack-dep package

It almost does, it comes _so frustratingly close_ to being there as one command.

[koenn]

That's definately possible. I haven't tried accessing it through a proxy at all. When download?package=packagename is hit, it then downloads / generates the package and serves it back - download corresponds to a method, not to an actual file. If the proxy tries to fetch the "page" before the method was finished (and it looks like it is), it would 404.

I seem to get the same problem also without proxy.
Let me know if there's anything I can do if you want to investigate this further.

[kaens]

I seem to get the same problem also without proxy.
Let me know if there's anything I can do if you want to investigate this further.

I'd really like to know what's going on, but you seem to be the only person it's happening to, and I frankly don't have any clue why.

I've tried it in firefox 3.0.1, so I don't think that's the problem.

Maybe it will happen to some other people and we can figure it out. I'm a bit stumped, as it is.

It is happening consistently, right?

[Newuser1111]

It crashed FireFox.

[kernelhaxor]

thts a cool idea .. I guess ur hard disk is getting full with all the tarballs it prepares for other ppl .. Oh well, I guess u can delete the tarballs as and when required ..

thanks mate!

[kaens]

It crashed FireFox.

Are you the person who searched for "a"? It certainly might crash firefox if you tried to load such a huge results list.

Edit: if not, what did you search for that crashed it?

thts a cool idea .. I guess ur hard disk is getting full with all the tarballs it prepares for other ppl .. Oh well, I guess u can delete the tarballs as and when required

The tarballs tend to be pretty small. The tarball directory is currently taking up 278M, a lot of that is gcc-4.2-source and eclipse tarballs.

If I had a dedicated server / real host for this, I would just make sure to have enough hard-drive space for them, and perhaps clean cache every once in a while, or when packages get updated.

[Newuser1111]

Are you the person who searched for "a"? It certainly might crash firefox if you tried to load such a huge results list.

Edit: if not, what did you search for that crashed it?

I typed "WINE" or something similar.

[kaens]

I typed "WINE" or something similar.

Could it have just been a random firefox crash? Does is crash again when you try it again? If so, what version of firefox?