On Fri 15 May 2015 at 22:03:59 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Bob Proulx (b...@proulx.com): > > > When the program looks up the ftp.us.debian.org name it will get all > > three of the above in some order. If your system is IPv6 capable it > > will prefer the IPv6 address and always use it. If not then it will > > select one of the two IPv4 addresses and use it. The different mirror > > sites are using different software. Some sites advertise their own > > information and others do not. The archive data provided is the same > > in either case. And regardless the Release file is cryptographically > > signed and checksumed such that it can be trusted regardless of the > > host transporting it. We appreciate the mirrors making their > > bandwidth and hosting available for Debian mirrors. > > Thanks for that clear exposition. I myself have had no problem with > these differences (assuming they could even be relevant). But can you > throw any light on why Pierre is apparently being served a .xz > compressed file by ftp.fr.debian.org which is making apt-get > (presumably expecting to receive a .gz file) fail to verify the > digest? (I can't even try reproducing this as I'm i386 and he's amd64.)
A comparison of the outputs from 'apt-config dump' on both laptops might give something. Unreproducible here on a new bare-bones i386 Wheezy install with the same mirror. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/16052015142357.38cfac72d...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
