Package: mirrors User: mirr...@packages.debian.org Usertags: httpredir Control: submitter -1 Martin Scharm <mar...@binfalse.de>
-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Frequent Mirror Problems Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 09:01:16 +0200 From: Martin Scharm <mar...@binfalse.de> To: mirr...@debian.org Hi mirrors team, I am having a few problems with mirrors in the httpredir.debian.org pool. If I try to install a lot of packages certain mirrors (or maybe it is the httpredir service?) sometimes/often respond with an error after downloading about 200 to 350 packages. The number of successful downloads differs from time to time, but the problem occurs quite frequent. That's especially annoying, as I'm developing a Docker image. So downloaded packages won't be cached and I cannot (cleanly) run a second apt-get call to get the remaining packages, which would still be a dirty workaround. In my case it's texlive-full that I'm trying to install. It feels like I can run the same command a hundred times and it will fail in 85 cases. I figured out that it helps to decrease the number of packages to be downloaded. If I replace > apt-get install -y texlive-full with two apt-get calls > apt-get install -y texlive-base > apt-get install -y texlive-full I've never seen any problems, which leads to my first hypothesis that some mirrors seem to have problems with a lot of requests. I first suspected that there is an issue with my network/dns settings, but I'm developing that stuff from a university network and the Docker servers do have the same issues building the image. Here you'll find some automated builds of the image: https://hub.docker.com/r/binfalse/texpile/builds/ As you see, two versions failed to build. Both did have a problem downloading Debian packages: * In case of https://hub.docker.com/r/binfalse/texpile/builds/b8pvbtx94kn55jqundfcrwg/ the mirror 128.31.0.66 didn't serve http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gsfonts/gsfonts_8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4.2_all.deb * In case of https://hub.docker.com/r/binfalse/texpile/builds/bjsdjeu8k6rbbcgsecxpkyz/ the mirror 5.153.231.35 didn't deliver http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/texlive-extra/texlive-publishers-doc_2014.20141024-1_all.deb Both links to the packages do work fine for me when accessed using a browser or curl. However, that probably means nothing as I'm getting redirected somewhere else. If I try to download texlive-publishers-doc_2014.20141024-1_all.deb from one of the failing servers above (naively assuming that it is supposed to be in /debian/pool/main/t/texlive-extra/texlive-publishers-doc_2014.20141024-1_all.deb) I also get an error in my browser. Thus, my second hypothesis is that there are simply some black sheep in the pool? And every once in a while I unfortunately get redirected to a bad server? And the probability that this happens just increases with the number of packages to be installed. Or am I doing something wrong? It would be super cool if you could help me with this issue. Please let me know if you need more information! Thanks a lot for your efforts! You're doing a great thing! :) Best wishes from Rostock, Martin
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