On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 12:52:24PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: | How do the mirrors work?
I don't really know, but I have some guesses. | Are the Packages files always copied last, to ensure all the | versions mentioned in them already exist on the disk when you try to | get them? I don't think so. | In what cases could an hours old Packages file mention packages that | apparently haven't been copied to the mirror yet? E.g. | http://debian.linux.org.tw/debian/pool/main/f/file/file_4.06-1_i386.deb: | ERROR 404: Not Found. I've seen this several times when a package is brand new, and the Packages file was just updated to include it, but a mirror hasn't copied it yet. For example, I use "http.us.debian.org" as my mirror. That name refers to something like 6 different machines around the country. Some are updated sooner than others, so I might get a Packages file that lists a package that one (or more) of the mirrors doesn't have yet. When that happens I either exercise patience and install the package later, or repeatedly run 'aptitude install' on the command line until it hits a/the mirror that has the .deb. -D -- Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. James 1:27 http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/
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