On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:08:50PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 07:43:42PM +1030, David Fitch wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 04:41, Mike Lake wrote:
> > > Failed to fetch
>http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian/pool/main/l/logcheck/logtail_1.1.1-13.1_all.deb
>Size mismatch
> > > How does one get around this?
> >
> > I've had problems before with mirror.aarnet to do with wrong checksums
> > and this size mismatch error, I presumed it was the mirror being in the
> > process of updating or something but... you had the same problem with
> > the us.debian site so it's probably not related.
> >
> > When I had that size mismatch error it was trying to dist-upgrade to a
> > version of woody on a cd, I just assumed it was some dud packages on the
> > cd and changed the sources.list to the web instead and it worked ok.
> > You've already tried that so sorry probably not much help.
>
> Honestly, the best thing I can suggest is not to use mirror.aarnet. It's
> been stuffed for quite some time, and I don't think it fully recovered.
> Planetmirror works best for me, and there's also Monash and many other
> Australian mirrors. Use them. :)
mirror.aarnet.edu.au and planetmirror.com are maintained by the same group
of people. So if one is broken, both are. If you do find one or the other
broken (and it isn't a proxy), since they can't monitor everything, it
always helps to report the problem.
The problem arises because none, as far as I know, of the .au mirrors are
being "pushed" when updates happen on the main debian. This means they poll
the site regularly and sometimes you might download either the Packages files
or the .deb in the middle of being updated.
Typically you can recover from this by:
- deleting the (partial) .deb from /var/cache/apt/archive (or
where it is loacted)
- perform: $ apt-get update
- try again.
These kinds of problems tend to also be compounded by having proxies in
the middle (the proxy caches the incorrect response) so if you can bypass
the proxy that might also help.
Anand
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