HTTPS sources fail to update

with Debug::Acquire::https set to true:

> GET /archive/xxx/Packages.gz HTTP/1.1
Range: bytes=12696-
User-Agent: Debian APT-CURL/1.0 (0.6.46.4ubuntu10build2)
Host: ubuntu.xxx
Accept: */*
If-Modified-Since: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=0

< HTTP/1.1 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable
< Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:18:22 GMT
< Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Ubuntu) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8b
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
* transfer closed with outstanding read data remaining
* Closing connection #0
Err https://ubuntu.xxx xxx/ Packages
  transfer closed with outstanding read data remaining
Fetched 563B in 1s (469B/s)

Ah, the range request is a red herring. What's actually going on is that the partial file isn't getting removed on a successful download, so curl tries to generate a range request from the end of the file.
Commenting the range request option out results in the file doubling in size each update.

The range can still an issue. If the list file changes in such a way that it can't be resumed the next time an apt-get update is run (such as a reordering of the contents), I believe it will fail in the same way. The https method probably needs to handle the case of the web server ignoring the range request for situations where it can't honor it for this circumstance, or someone will have to go in and remove the partial file for things to start working again.

No?

-Todd

Another related debian bug, with a patch:

apt-transport-https: doesn't reset curl options between files or timestamp downloaded files
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=437150

This should be fixed in gutsy now (+ the debian patch is added to the report too).

I have this probem w. ubuntu feisty on multiple machines, and although deleting lists from /var/lib/apt/lists and /var/lib/apt/lists/partial works, I'd love to have the working version of apt-transport-https in feisty too.
I'm using my own mirror and changing to gutsy is not an option at the moment. I can build the package myself, but I'd need a patch for the version feisty uses and can't find one ... anyone able to help?

This is still happening on my Gutsy release. I had to remove the file in /var/lib/apt/lists/partial, and the update worked. I'm running apt 0.7.6ubuntu14.1, and I see the link (by Robert Coup) shows this being fixed in apt 0.7.7 - when is 0.7.7 getting pushed into the Gutsy distribution?

Dan