I'm trying to mirror sarge and etch, i386, main contrib non-free. apt-get update (on any etch system on the LAN -- don't know about sarge yet) says:
> pblinux:~# apt-get update > Errhttp://log.slsware.dmz etch Release.gpg > Bad header line > Ign http://log.slsware.dmz etch Release.gpg > Ign http://log.slsware.dmz etch Release > Ign http://log.slsware.dmz etch Release > Ign http://log.slsware.dmz etch/main Packages > Get: 1 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B] > Ign http://log.slsware.dmz etch/non-free Packages > Ign http://log.slsware.dmz etch/contrib Packages > Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release > Ign http://log.slsware.dmz etch/main Packages > Errhttp://log.slsware.dmz etch/main Packages > Bad header line > Errhttp://log.slsware.dmz etch/non-free Packages > Bad header line > Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages > Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources > Errhttp://log.slsware.dmz etch/contrib Packages > Bad header line > Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages > Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources > Errhttp://log.slsware.dmz etch/main Packages > Bad header line > Fetched 1B in 2s (0B/s) > Failed to fetch > http://log.slsware.dmz/mirrors/debian/dists/etch/Release.gpg Bad header > line Failed to fetch > http://log.slsware.dmz/mirrors/debian/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages. >gz Bad header line Failed to fetch > http://log.slsware.dmz/mirrors/debian/dists/etch/non-free/binary-i386/Packa >ges.gz Bad header line Failed to fetch > http://log.slsware.dmz/mirrors/debian/dists/etch/contrib/binary-i386/Packag >es.gz Bad header line Failed to fetch > http://log.slsware.dmz/mirrors/marillat-i386/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Pa >ckages.gz Bad header line Reading package lists... Done > E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones > used instead. (excuse line wrapping, please) The mirrors are maintained with debmirror via mkdebmirror. If I put debmirror's remote source in sources.list, apt-get reports no errors. And the security repository is OK. If I look at Packages.gz with firefox (it evidently unzips it -- hexedit shows the .gz is definitely not ASCII), there is no header at all; it starts off with a package description. If I get a copy of the file, gunzip has no problem unzipping it, so the gzip header seems OK.. I haven't looked at Releases.gpg. Why do the local files (all the meta-files?) have "bad headers"; is apt-get complaining about gzip headers or apt package file headers; and what can I do about it? TIA... -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG ID: D0D7FF20 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
