tags 553605 wontfix thanks On Sunday 01 November 2009, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > Sometimes my parent mirror has 'experimental' in inconsistent state. > So debmirror denied to download other threads (stable-unstable).
What kind of errors are they exactly, and why would they only affect experimental? How long does it take for the error to be resolved? Is it better after for example an hour or only after a next mirror push to the parent? Is it possible that you are simply trying to mirror while the parent mirror is still busy mirroring itself? You could avoid that by checking the trace files. It the problem is with the parent mirror, then it seems to me that either the mirror script they use is broken in some way, or else experimental must be broken on all mirrors and the problem should be reported to the Debian FTP-masters. > It would be nice, if debmirror find that one thread is inconsistent, > then it would print warning and continue to work under other threds. debmirror already has the option to ignore minor errors. It will however always fail is errors are detected in meta files. Although I understand your reasoning regarding experimental, I don't think it is wise to ignore such errors as it means your mirroring from a (temporarily) broken mirror. It seems better to keep your current consistent mirror and try again later. Also, the structure of debmirror does not really allow for ignoring errors in a specific dist. If it is your parent mirror or the Debian master mirror where the breakage occurs, then that's where the problem should be fixed. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
