On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Simon Paillard wrote: > This freshness issue is a issue for new etch install (which has been > released on April 8th), like the one in #418427. > > Could you make sure as soon as possible that your mirror is updated on a > daily basis ? (if not twice a day).
it is ok now; the problem seems to be related to some naming (dns) issue; since i was asked to mirror not from ftp.us.debian.org but a more specific site, i chose mirrors.kernel.org; turns out that mirrors.kernel.org is a round robin pointing to two addresses and only one of these two is in the round robin response of ftp.us.debian.org. it appears that only rsync jobs pointing at the 'correct' ip of mirrors.kernel.org work and the rsync fails otherwise. this may be an authorization issue. the current debian mirror script has two separate rsync jobs that run sequentially and it appears that i was having some problem related to this; if the first rsync job dies, the script exits and the entire update process fails. if the second rsync job dies (requires the first rsync job to have completed successfully, meaning the pool directory alone is updated), then all directories other than pool (including dists) fail to update. i am temporarily working around the issue by syncing from mirrors1.kernel.org. -- sriram -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
