Following is my report of the iglu amd64 mirror testing. Summary: Major problems, depending on your sources.list setup
I'm using sid (unstable). Cleaned up my sources list, leaving only iglu and my local nfs repository (which currently has no amd64 packages at all). * On iglu there is the "debian-amd64" dir itself, and it's subdirs "debian-amd64/debian" and several others. All seem to have a valid mirror stucture. * I started by trying "debian-amd64/debian", because this seems to be the common amd64 mirror location nowadays (see README.mirrors.txt in the repository) With this setup, the package lists seem to be uptodate, but the pool itself is empty (so you can update, but not install...). Web-browsing the repository seems to suggest that the other subdirs also have empty pools. * I then switched to the parent dir. With this location, it seems that the packages do exist, but (at least some) are outdated. <------ dumps using the parent dir -----> penguin:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://mirror.iglu.org.il/pub/debian-amd64/debian unstable main contrib deb-src http://mirror.iglu.org.il/pub/debian-amd64/debian unstable main contrib # local debs deb file:///srv/debs ./ penguin:~# apt-get update Ign file: ./ Release.gpg Ign file: ./ Release Ign file: ./ Packages Get:1 http://mirror.iglu.org.il unstable Release.gpg [189B] Hit http://mirror.iglu.org.il unstable Release Hit http://mirror.iglu.org.il unstable/main Packages Hit http://mirror.iglu.org.il unstable/contrib Packages Get:2 http://mirror.iglu.org.il unstable/main Sources [1091kB] Get:3 http://mirror.iglu.org.il unstable/contrib Sources [23.0kB] Fetched 1114kB in 6s (162kB/s) Reading package lists... Done penguin:~# apt-get --simulate install jed Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: jed-common The following NEW packages will be installed: jed jed-common 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Inst jed-common (0.99.16-5 Debian AMD64 archive:unstable) Inst jed (0.99.16-5 Debian AMD64 archive:unstable) Conf jed-common (0.99.16-5 Debian AMD64 archive:unstable) Conf jed (0.99.16-5 Debian AMD64 archive:unstable) penguin:~# apt-get install jed Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: jed-common The following NEW packages will be installed: jed jed-common 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 681kB of archives. After unpacking 2699kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y Err http://mirror.iglu.org.il unstable/main jed-common 0.99.16-5 404 Not Found Err http://mirror.iglu.org.il unstable/main jed 0.99.16-5 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://mirror.iglu.org.il/pub/debian-amd64/debian/pool/main/j/jed/jed-common_0.99.16-5_all.deb 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://mirror.iglu.org.il/pub/debian-amd64/debian/pool/main/j/jed/jed_0.99.16-5_amd64.deb 404 Not Found E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? Sources: -------------- penguin:/tmp/aaa# apt-get source python2.3-pygame Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Need to get 1285kB of source archives. Err http://mirror.iglu.org.il unstable/main pygame 1.7.1release-1 (dsc) 404 Not Found Err http://mirror.iglu.org.il unstable/main pygame 1.7.1release-1 (tar) 404 Not Found Err http://mirror.iglu.org.il unstable/main pygame 1.7.1release-1 (diff) 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://mirror.iglu.org.il/pub/debian-amd64/debian/pool/main/p/pygame/pygame_1.7.1release-1.dsc 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://mirror.iglu.org.il/pub/debian-amd64/debian/pool/main/p/pygame/pygame_1.7.1release.orig.tar.gz 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://mirror.iglu.org.il/pub/debian-amd64/debian/pool/main/p/pygame/pygame_1.7.1release-1.diff.gz 404 Not Found E: Failed to fetch some archives. penguin:/tmp/aaa# apt-get source udev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Need to get 481kB of source archives. Err http://mirror.iglu.org.il unstable/main udev 0.071-1 (dsc) 404 Not Found Err http://mirror.iglu.org.il unstable/main udev 0.071-1 (tar) 404 Not Found Err http://mirror.iglu.org.il unstable/main udev 0.071-1 (diff) 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://mirror.iglu.org.il/pub/debian-amd64/debian/pool/main/u/udev/udev_0.071-1.dsc 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://mirror.iglu.org.il/pub/debian-amd64/debian/pool/main/u/udev/udev_0.071.orig.tar.gz 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://mirror.iglu.org.il/pub/debian-amd64/debian/pool/main/u/udev/udev_0.071-1.diff.gz 404 Not Found E: Failed to fetch some archives. <----- now for some dumps using the parent directory ----> penguin:/tmp/aaa# cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://mirror.iglu.org.il/pub/debian-amd64 unstable main contrib deb-src http://mirror.iglu.org.il/pub/debian-amd64 unstable main contrib #deb http://mirror.iglu.org.il/pub/debian-amd64/debian unstable main contrib #deb-src http://mirror.iglu.org.il/pub/debian-amd64/debian unstable main contrib # local debs deb file:///srv/debs ./ penguin:/tmp/aaa# apt-get update Ign file: ./ Release.gpg Ign file: ./ Release Ign file: ./ Packages Get:1 http://mirror.iglu.org.il unstable Release.gpg [189B] Get:2 http://mirror.iglu.org.il unstable Release [4800B] Hit http://mirror.iglu.org.il unstable/main Packages Hit http://mirror.iglu.org.il unstable/contrib Packages Hit http://mirror.iglu.org.il unstable/main Sources Hit http://mirror.iglu.org.il unstable/contrib Sources Fetched 4801B in 0s (13.2kB/s) Reading package lists... Done penguin:/tmp/aaa# apt-cache showpkg udev Package: udev Versions: 0.071-1(/var/lib/dpkg/status) 0.070-5(/var/lib/apt/lists/mirror.iglu.org.il_pub_debian-amd64_dists_unstable_main_binary-amd64_Packages) Reverse Depends: usbmount,udev 0.060-1 rng-tools,udev 0.053 pmp-common,udev 0.070-5 multipath-tools,udev 0.070 makedev,udev 0.024-7 libticables3,udev libsane-extras,udev libsane,udev libgphoto2-2,udev initramfs-tools,udev hal,udev 0.063 eciadsl,udev dvbtune,udev alsa-utils,udev 0.060 alsa-utils,udev 0.063 Dependencies: 0.071-1 - libc6 (2 2.3.5-1) libselinux1 (2 1.26) libsepol1 (2 1.8) initscripts (2 2.85-16) makedev (2 2.3.1-77) sed (2 3.95) lsb-base (2 3.0-6) lvm-common (3 1.5.13) hotplug (0 (null)) module-init-tools (3 3.2-pre9-1) 0.070-5 - libc6 (2 2.3.5-1) libselinux1 (2 1.26) initscripts (2 2.85-16) makedev (2 2.3.1-77) sed (2 3.95) lsb-base (2 3.0-6) lvm-common (3 1.5.13) hotplug (0 (null)) module-init-tools (3 3.2-pre9-1) Provides: 0.071-1 - hotplug 0.070-5 - hotplug Reverse Provides: penguin:/tmp/aaa# apt-cache showpkg m4 Package: m4 Versions: 1.4.4-1(/var/lib/dpkg/status) 1.4.3-2(/var/lib/apt/lists/mirror.iglu.org.il_pub_debian-amd64_dists_unstable_main_binary-amd64_Packages) Reverse Depends: autoconf,m4 wml,m4 1.4-8 toolchain-source,m4 sgrep,m4 sendmail-cf,m4 sendmail-base,m4 selinux-policy-default,m4 pcb,m4 mozplugger,m4 lsb-core,m4 kernel-patch-uml,m4 fvwm1,m4 fvwm-gnome,m4 fvwm,m4 flex,m4 ctwm,m4 clamav-getfiles,m4 bison,m4 autoconf2.13,m4 autoconf,m4 asclassic,m4 arla-modules-source,m4 Dependencies: 1.4.4-1 - libc6 (2 2.3.5-1) 1.4.3-2 - libc6 (2 2.3.2.ds1-21) Provides: 1.4.4-1 - 1.4.3-2 - Reverse Provides: <------ end dumps -----> Note that I found these two outdated packages by random browsing (2 bad ones out of the first 4 I tried) The existing m4 version matches the current testing version, but the udev version is somewhere between current testing and unstable...
