Re: Releases file
Hugo van der Merwe <hugovdm@mail.com> writes:
> A suggestion for further improving quality of boot-floppies;
>
> Friend of mine had "trouble" with 3.0.16-2001-10-24 idepci flavour from
> people.debian.org/~aph. I think it is probably debootstrap that can be
> "fixed".
>
> The case is if you enter the wrong URL for downloading base, it attempts
> to get the Release file, which results in a 404. Which gets stored in
> /var/lib/apt/whatever... not sure where. Then he enters the right URL,
> but this file has already been downloaded. Simply deleting the file by
> hand from another terminal solved the issues.
>
> I could suggest deleting the file automatically if it is a 404, or
> something along those lines, deleting it if it is faulty, maybe letting
> the user know and all... but the main issue and probably the right way
> to solve it is to redownload the Release file each time the user ...
> changes the address to download it from. Redownloading the file
> absolutely every time is probably intentionally not done?
>
> Hugo van der Merwe
>
> ps, I do not subscribe to this list, please CC me a reply, even if it
> is one of:
> - "we hear you, will look into it"
> - "right, we hear you but don't care"
> - "go report a bug against debootstrap"
> - "go report a bug against boot-floppies"
> - "go away"
> Gives me an idea if I must take this further/elsewhere <g>
I suggest:
Please test this with the latest debootstrap. Iit should work the
same on a fully installed system as when installing the system). If
it behaves differently, then the problem is probably with busybox
wget, in which case
- "go report a bug against busybox"
Otherwise, please
- "go report a bug against debootstrap"
Thanks. :)
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...Adam Di Carlo..<adam@onshore-devel.com>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
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