Ever since Proxmox VE started requesting / recommending the installation of
It causes a
All other Packages, both on Debian's and Proxmox VE's Repository (
I tried to dig into it a bit yesterday via Google Gemini, but I admit that I didn't manage to get anywhere unfortunately
.
According to Google Gemini, the Issue seems to stem from 3 possible Causes:
Here are some Examples of what I tried to do, although none of them worked.
It's difficult to know exactly why it fails, because I feel like the Error Message aren't nowhere near Verbose enough, even though Verbose is set to 7.
Example of Log parsed via
Any Idea on how this can be solved ?
The only Workaround I could do at the moment is to pre-download the Package File and then distribute them using salt to all Client Devices in
proxmox-offline-mirror-docs / proxmox-offline-mirror-helper (either as Dependency or as recommended Packages), I had all Clients failing to download these Packages via apt-cacher-ng.It causes a
HTTP 400 Bad Request.All other Packages, both on Debian's and Proxmox VE's Repository (
pve-no-subscription), download without Issues.I tried to dig into it a bit yesterday via Google Gemini, but I admit that I didn't manage to get anywhere unfortunately
.According to Google Gemini, the Issue seems to stem from 3 possible Causes:
- Too many Hyphens (
-) in Package Name - Package Name contains
docsin its Name (not sure whyhelperalso fails though
) - Bad HTTP Headers (not sure why it only fails with these 2 Packages though)
Here are some Examples of what I tried to do, although none of them worked.
It's difficult to know exactly why it fails, because I feel like the Error Message aren't nowhere near Verbose enough, even though Verbose is set to 7.
Code:
#PfilePatternEx = ^proxmox-offline-mirror-.*$
#PfilePatternEx = ^.*proxmox.*$
#PfilePattern = ^.*proxmox.*$|^.*((\.[ud]?deb|\.rpm|\.drpm|\.dsc|\.tar(\.gz|\.bz2|\.lzma|\.xz|\.zst)(\.sig)?)|\.diff(\.gz|\.bz2|\.lzma|\.xz|\.zst)|\.jigdo|\.template|changelog|copyright|\.debdelta|\.diff/.*\.gz|[a-f0-9]+-(susedata|updateinfo|primary|deltainfo).xml.gz|fonts/(final/)?[a-z]+32.exe(\?download.*)?|/dists/.*/installer-[^/]+/[0-9][^/]+/images/.*|/[[:alpha:]]{1,2}/[a-f0-9]{64}(-[a-f0-9]{64})?(\.gz)?|/by-hash/(SHA|MD)[0-9]+/.*|\.asc$|changelogs/pool/.*/changelog.txt$|/objects/.*/.*\.(dirtree|filez|commit|commitmeta)|/repo/deltas/.*|[a-f0-9]+-modules.yaml.gz|[a-f0-9]+-(primary|filelists|comps-[^.]*.[^.]*|updateinfo|prestodelta).xml(|.gz|.xz|.zck))$
#PfilePattern = ^.*(proxmox.*\.deb|proxmox.*\.tar.*)$|^.*((\.[ud]?deb|\.rpm|\.drpm|\.dsc|\.tar(\.gz|\.bz2|\.lzma|\.xz|\.zst)(\.sig)?)|\.diff(\.gz|\.bz2|\.lzma|\.xz|\.zst)|\.jigdo|\.template|changelog|copyright|\.debdelta|\.diff/.*\.gz|[a-f0-9]+-(susedata|updateinfo|primary|deltainfo).xml.gz|fonts/(final/)?[a-z]+32.exe(\?download.*)?|/dists/.*/installer-[^/]+/[0-9][^/]+/images/.*|/[[:alpha:]]{1,2}/[a-f0-9]{64}(-[a-f0-9]{64})?(\.gz)?|/by-hash/(SHA|MD)[0-9]+/.*|\.asc$|changelogs/pool/.*/changelog.txt$|/objects/.*/.*\.(dirtree|filez|commit|commitmeta)|/repo/deltas/.*|[a-f0-9]+-modules.yaml.gz|[a-f0-9]+-(primary|filelists|comps-[^.]*.[^.]*|updateinfo|prestodelta).xml(|.gz|.xz|.zck))$
#VfilePattern = ^$
#WfilePattern = ^.*proxmox.*$
#PfilePattern = ^.*proxmox.*$
#VfilePattern = ^$
#SPfilePatternEx = .*proxmox.*
#UserBlockPattern = ^download\.proxmox\.com/.*\.deb$
#SPfilePattern = ^.*proxmox-offline-mirror.*$Example of Log parsed via
grep --color -ri proxmox-offline-mirror -B5 -A5 /var/log/apt-cacher-ng/apt-cacher.err:
Code:
Sun May 24 07:09:49 2026|Detected incoming connection from the TCP socket
Sun May 24 07:09:49 2026|Client name: 192.168.2.23:34932
Sun May 24 07:09:49 2026|Decoded request URI: /
Sun May 24 07:09:49 2026|Detected incoming connection from the TCP socket
Sun May 24 07:09:49 2026|Client name: 192.168.2.23:34936
Sun May 24 07:09:49 2026|Decoded request URI: http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve/dists/trixie/pve-no-subscription/binary-amd64/proxmox-offline-mirror-docs_0.7.4_all.deb
Sun May 24 07:09:49 2026|Processing new job, http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve/dists/trixie/pve-no-subscription/binary-amd64/proxmox-offline-mirror-docs_0.7.4_all.deb
Sun May 24 07:09:50 2026|Download started, storeHeader for download.proxmox.com/debian/pve/dists/trixie/pve-no-subscription/binary-amd64/proxmox-offline-mirror-docs_0.7.4_all.deb, current status: 1
Sun May 24 07:09:50 2026|Detected incoming connection from the TCP socket
Sun May 24 07:09:50 2026|Client name: 192.168.2.23:34950
Sun May 24 07:09:50 2026|Decoded request URI: http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve/dists/trixie/pve-no-subscription/binary-amd64/proxmox-offline-mirror-helper_0.7.4_amd64.deb
Sun May 24 07:09:50 2026|Processing new job, http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve/dists/trixie/pve-no-subscription/binary-amd64/proxmox-offline-mirror-helper_0.7.4_amd64.deb
Sun May 24 07:09:50 2026|Download started, storeHeader for download.proxmox.com/debian/pve/dists/trixie/pve-no-subscription/binary-amd64/proxmox-offline-mirror-helper_0.7.4_amd64.deb, current status: 1Any Idea on how this can be solved ?
The only Workaround I could do at the moment is to pre-download the Package File and then distribute them using salt to all Client Devices in
/var/cache/apt/archives/, but that is really a Hack ... Another Option could be a local partial Mirror for only these Packages combined with higher-priority APT Pinning. That is another Hack that feels unnecessary though.