Re: package servers inconsistent?

2001-05-04 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:53:03PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Maybe its too difficult to provide consistent package files for the short > > window while the mirror updates are running. No cons. > > > > But is it possible to set some kind of flag to indicate that I am probably > > downloading

Re: package servers inconsistent?

2001-05-03 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:58:01PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > > > What about stable? Removing the stable Packages file during an update > > would make it impossible to do a network install. > > > Not impossible. But the client would have to wait till the *.deb files have > been mirrored co

Re: package servers inconsistent?

2001-05-03 Thread Harald Dunkel
Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:33:27PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > > Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > [...] > > > > Maybe its too difficult to provide consistent package files for the short > > window while the mirror updates are running. No cons. > > > > But is it possible t

Re: package servers inconsistent?

2001-05-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:33:27PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > [...] > > Maybe its too difficult to provide consistent package files for the short > window while the mirror updates are running. No cons. > > But is it possible to set some kind of flag to indicate that

Re: package servers inconsistent?

2001-05-02 Thread Harald Dunkel
Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 08:50:06PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > > Is it possible to keep an eye upon package consistency on the > > hosts 'http.us.debian.org'? > > > > Each time I run 'apt-get update', some of the package lists on my > > machine seem to be outdated, e

Re: package servers inconsistent?

2001-04-30 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 08:50:06PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Is it possible to keep an eye upon package consistency on the > hosts 'http.us.debian.org'? > > Each time I run 'apt-get update', some of the package lists on my > machine seem to be outdated, even if the last update has been done >

package servers inconsistent?

2001-04-30 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, Is it possible to keep an eye upon package consistency on the hosts 'http.us.debian.org'? Each time I run 'apt-get update', some of the package lists on my machine seem to be outdated, even if the last update has been done just a few jiffies ago. But usually the following 'apt-get ugrad