Re: AU mirror problem

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I tried the line:
>
> deb http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/debian-amd64/debian/ unstable main contrib
>
> When I update, it appears to fetch the release file but skip the
> packages file. If I can change unstable to sid, it works.
> (But since unstable == sid, this isn't very intuitive.)
>
> Is something wrong?
>
>
> thanks
>
> Hamish

Does work the first time only?

With ftp-master down there hasn't been any updates lately so this
might just simply be caused by the Packages file being unchanged.

The Release file contains the checksum for the Packages file so
apt-get knows (i think) when it needs to fetch it.

MfG
        Goswin