At 10:39 15/03/2002, Anand Kumria sent this up the stick: >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
mirror.pacific.net.au works well enough for me Rob -- So close, no matter how far... couldn't be much more from the heart. Forever trusting who we are, and nothing else matters. [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian This is random quote 898 of a collection of 1203 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
