Dear maintainers,

as you might know, I am regularly building my own kali-live using ./build.sh.

As I do not always want to download all the packages every time, I am using apt-cacher-ng and store all downloaded packages on my harddrive.
This was working for many years, but at about 1-2 years, this is not always working. And I can not find teh reason for it.

The error message at crash is telling, that a package has changed the size or "is there a mirroring in process?"

To get closer, I then deleted the named package, let it download new, and tried again - without success. But: When I delete the whole repository, then it is working.

For me it looks like there is a discrepancy between the package and the file "packages.gz", but I can not prove it.

Of course, it also can be, that I have to configure the environment in another way as before.

This is my actual environment, set by a bash sript (only the apt-cacher-part is interesting here):

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#:!/bin/bash
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export http_proxy=http://localhost:3142/
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./build.sh --arch amd64 --distribution kali-rolling --variant lxde --verbose -- --apt-http-proxy http://localhost:3142/ --bootappend-live "boot=live hostname=kali ignore.....................

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Before you ask: I am building in a kali-live system, so I have to copy another acng.conf to /etc, and restart apt-cacher-ng before building. This is also done by my bash script.

Today I had the problem again, this time it mourned the size of packages.gz, strangely one of /root/packages.gz, but also of the repository http://http.kali.org/kali.......

I am not sure, if this is a bug here on my computer, or in the repo itself or hust unlucky constellations. But as I said, this issue is appearing from time to time and although I have nothing changed, almost since 1-2 years.

What can I do other than sending the build.log, which does not tell much usefull information?

It would be nice, if one could confirm, that apt-cacher-ng is still usable for my needs and/or if I have to change my configuration.

Thank you all in advance.

Best

Hans