Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hi,
The file lists provided under /debian/indices/files do not list Release and Release.gpg for Squeeze, resulting in a broken Squeeze mirror. The file lists were advertised as a way to easily build a partial or typical or full mirror by aj in [1] (d-d-a) back when the mirror split stuff happened. I've been using them for some time now, and my experience so far has been mostly good. However, there are several issues with the lists, ranging from minor to painful, e.g.: - minor: the lists include files that are no longer pushed out to mirrors, like overrides for sarge and some others; causes rsync to exit non-zero, which isn't nice :/ - painful: whatever happened when Etch was removed from the mirrors, see my report from back then; caused dozens of GB of unwanted files appearing on the mirror (& associated wasted bandwidth) - annoying: this issue (breaks d-i installs) To date, it looks like there's a database somewhere that needs a little cleaning up and possibly a small patch to fix the Release files issue at hand and everything should be back in order. The file lists have been a great improvement for partial mirrors, so I hope you can find some time to fix them up for good :) Thanks, JB. [1] <20060113162301.ga30...@localhost.localdomain> -- Julien BLACHE <jbla...@debian.org> | Debian, because code matters more Debian & GNU/Linux Developer | <http://www.debian.org> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
