On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 09:15:11AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 09:41:57PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL 
> > PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> 
> >> > Package: debmirror
> >> > Version: 20050207
> >> > Followup-For: Bug #316461
> >> >
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > This bug might be much more dangerous than it looks like : it *seems*
> >> > that it prevented debmirror from working properly. I only noticed
> >> > today, when I saw that I hadn't any new version of packages available,
> >> > even if I hadn't upgraded for the last 2 weeks or so.
> >> >
> >> > Lucas
> >> 
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> can you be more specific about this?
> >
> > Timeline :
> > t0 : I upgrade my system using the local mirror. Everything goes fine.
> >
> > about 2 weeks later : I run apt-get update. No new upgrades are waiting
> > (!) (I'm running sid)
> >
> > I suspect there's a problem with debmirror. I rerun debmirror by hand
> > (debmirror --progress --verbose --dist=sid --nosource --passive
> > --host=ftp.fr.debian.org --method=rsync --root=:debian
> > --section=main,contrib,non-free --arch=i386 --cleanup --getcontents
> > /home/space/debmirror/debian). Nothing strange in the debmirror output
> > except the find warning.
> >
> > To check if there is really nothing new, I switch in
> > /etc/apt/sources.list from my local mirror to another mirror. I apt-get
> > update, some new packages show up. I stop, look for a bug in the BTS,
> > find it, apply the patch, rerun debmirror, switch back to my local
> > mirror in /etc/apt/sources.list, run apt-get update, and it goes fine.
> 
> Did you switch to ftp.fr.debian.org or to another mirror?

Another mirror.

> Maybe
> ftp.fr.debian.org didn't update or something?

Sounds possible, especially since it seems to be down now.

> Sounds like a very big
> coincidence that it gets fixed the day you notice but nothing else
> makes sense. If you look at the code the find can't have any effect on
> the mirroring:

You are probably right. Sorry for the noise :-)
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