Re: Debian jigdo status

2017-12-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > many thanks to Thomas Schmitt and Phil Hands You are welcome. If you want to thank Philip Hands, then you will probably have to do this to him directly or to debian-live list. > A whole company's thanks actually. GNU/Linux saved my financial neck long ago. From t

Re: Debian jigdo status

2017-12-21 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
I'm the OP so I thought I would follow-up. It turned out that there were problems with some files in the Debian archives. The traffic on the resolution for that is on debian-cd: https://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2017/12/msg00014.html There were also recently discovered problems in the jigdo tools

Re: Debian jigdo status

2017-12-15 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 22:10:12 +0100 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: Hello Thomas, >Correction: It is now in "testing" after only 6 days in "unstable". >(Has the quarantine time been reduced ? Normally it is 10 or 11 days.) It's usually five days. For some software it's extended to ten. -- Regards _

Re: Debian jigdo status

2017-12-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Brian wrote: > Thank you for taking the trouble to respond. Thank you for asking questions which i can answer. i wrote: > It is now in "unstable" since 2 days: Correction: It is now in "testing" after only 6 days in "unstable". (Has the quarantine time been reduced ? Normally it is 10 or 1

Re: Debian jigdo status

2017-12-15 Thread Brian
On Fri 15 Dec 2017 at 21:10:34 +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Brian wrote: > > Why doesn't giving https://...jigdo work? Or, to be more precise, why > > doesn't it work for me? > > Obviously because you did not yet install the new package which is > available since already 8 days. :)) > https:/

Re: Debian jigdo status

2017-12-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Brian wrote: > Why doesn't giving https://...jigdo work? Or, to be more precise, why > doesn't it work for me? Obviously because you did not yet install the new package which is available since already 8 days. :)) https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=865864 It is now in "unstab

Re: Debian jigdo status

2017-12-15 Thread Brian
On Fri 15 Dec 2017 at 19:42:16 +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Philip Hands on debian-cd detected two broken package files on the > fallback mirror which is mentioned at the end of the gzip-compressed > .jigdo file by: > > [Servers] > Debian=http://us.cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/snapsh

Re: Debian jigdo status

2017-12-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Philip Hands on debian-cd detected two broken package files on the fallback mirror which is mentioned at the end of the gzip-compressed .jigdo file by: [Servers] Debian=http://us.cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/snapshot/Debian/ --try-last My own download now succeeded with these inputs to jig

Re: Debian jigdo status

2017-12-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, my attempt to download debian-6.0.7-amd64-DVD-1.jigdo from scratch by mirror http://archive.debian.org/debian/ still says in the end: Aaargh - 2 files could not be downloaded. ... So i asked at debian-cd list: "What mirror to use with archived jigdo DVD images ?" https://lists.debian.or

Re: Debian jigdo status

2017-12-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, it seems that not all packages of Debian 6 are present on the default Debian mirror http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/. Still it delivers enough to keep me waiting for the end of that jigdo-lite run. Now it says: Aaargh - 7 files could not be downloaded. This should not happen! Depending o

Re: Debian jigdo status

2017-12-14 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Brian wrote: > > I had no problem using it a year or so ago on jessie. So I seem to have a bit of a problem today. Invoking "jigdo-lite http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/6.0.7/amd64/jigdo-dvd/debian-6.0.7-amd64-DVD-1.jigdo ", I receive 404's for every p

Re: Debian jigdo status

2017-12-14 Thread Brian
On Thu 14 Dec 2017 at 21:15:13 +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > atterer.org/jigdo [...] tells me that jigdo is no longer > > maintained since 2013 > > It says > This software is now in "maintenance mode" > > It also states that it is not developed further any more. B

Re: Debian jigdo status

2017-12-14 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 2:15 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > atterer.org/jigdo [...] tells me that jigdo is no longer > > maintained since 2013 > > It says > This software is now in "maintenance mode" Understood ;-) "maintenance mode" != "unmaintained" > > W

Re: Debian jigdo status

2017-12-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > atterer.org/jigdo [...] tells me that jigdo is no longer > maintained since 2013 It says This software is now in "maintenance mode" It also states that it is not developed further any more. But need for development would arise only if bugs are found. > What is

Debian jigdo status

2017-12-14 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
I need to update some old squeeze (6.0.7) servers and (long story) will need DVD images for the work. The Debian archives page tells me that I need jigdo to obtain the images (atterer.org/jigdo) (I've only used Bittorrent in the past). But that web page tells me that jigdo is no longer maintained s