Dear ftp.ru.debian.org admins, The issue reported below is typical of a sync script that doesn't try to be atomical, i.e. that updates the packages pool and the list of packages in sequence.
As a consequence, packages that are referenced in the Packages.gz can be not yet available in the pool (or no longer in the reverse case). In the recent rsync versions, the --delay-updates and --delete-after options combined with a two stages rsync allow to greatly reduce the time a Debian mirror is not consistent and users cannot fetch packages. So every Debian mirror admin should use these new options. Be careful, --delete-after is space consuming during the update ! We strongly encourage you to use the official example script updated to use these options: <http://www.debian.org/mirrors/anonftpsync> On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 02:20:32AM +0400, Dmitry Semyonov wrote: > Package: mirrors > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > I contacted [EMAIL PROTECTED] about this issue, and received a reply > on Apr, 16 that the mirror script can't connect on the first try, > and then when it finally connects after some time the connection > becomes broken. > > He was going to play with some parameters while trying to fix the issue, > but the situation hasn't become better since that time. > > This continues for several weeks already. So, some recently released Etch > packages (in particular wine) can't be installed as shown below. > > $ sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade > [...] > Err http://ftp.ru.debian.org etch/main wine 0.9.25-2.1 > 404 Not Found [IP: 193.233.9.194 80] -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
