Colin Watson dixit:

>I think the likely cause of this is that debmirror doesn't use by-hash
>to fetch from its upstream mirror, so it's possible to end up with
>desynchronisation depending on when it fetches its index files.  Have

Ah, okay, makes sense.

>you tried looking at the times in your upstream mirror's project/trace
>and adjusting the times when you run debmirror so that you avoid running
>while it's updating?

We'll have a look at that, thanks.


>there.  With apt 1.4.7, an unstable chroot about half a day old, and a
>local mirror that does not publish pdiff files:
[...]
>But with apt 1.5~alpha1 and newer:
[...]
>This is effectively a new requirement for mirrors, and I think it's an
>unwarranted one.

Oh, interesting. Thanks for spotting that.

bye,
//mirabilos
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