On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 09:51:44AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I know you Debian people think it's just hilarious when users try to > apt-get upgrade during the period after when the Packages files > arrive on the mirrors, but before the packages they describe have > fully arrived.
> "Haw haw haw, try again later", you say, never thinking that maybe > writing the Packages files last would be the right thing to do. > "The problem can't persist more then a couple of hours, what's the big > deal?" You've been told this before -- *debian-devel does not control the mirroring implementation used by arbitrary Debian mirrors*. Either talk to the mirror team and give them enough information to track this down, or -- since you know him well enough to be kept in the loop about his vacation schedule -- talk to your local mirror operator directly and get him to stop using broken mirroring scripts. > I can't think of any other case in Computer Science where one updates > a descriptor before updating the thing described!!! How can you defend > that??? No smug remarks can defend that! And no amount of moronic, misdirected ranting will get it fixed. > Err http://xxxxxx.linux.org.xx sid/main xxxxxxxxxxxx 404 Not Found > Failed to fetch http://xxxxxx.linux.org.xx/debian/pool/main/xxxxx > Fetched 26.6MB in 2m39s (167kB/s) > E: Some files failed to download > Error 100 Yeah, real helpful of you to blot out the only potentially useful bit of information in your post... -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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