Bug#141280: mission impossible
retitle 141280 master mirror list should include architecture data
reassign 141280 mirrors
thanks
Hi,
Chris Tillman wrote:
> I was installing on an m68k machine. base-config opened the apt
> debconf dialog for me to choose a server. I chose one that I knew
> was speedy for me on powerpc, debian.tod.net.
>
> The configuration failed rather ungracefully, returning something
> like 404 or directory not found. I determined that the mirror
> I had chosen did not have a disks-m68k directory.
>
> To solve this, I guess an Architectures: field would need to
> be added in the mirror-full file, and accompanying changes for
> the web interface for mirror owners to designate which arches
> they are mirroring.
This would be near impossible to maintain properly. People skip/unskip
architectures relatively very often, usually due to space constraints and
low download/upload ratio.
The only places where there's a de facto implied guarantee that you'll find
all released architectures are the ftp.*.debian.org hosts.
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