Bug#797340: choose-mirror: use httpredir.debian.org by default
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 4:49 AM, Philipp Kern wrote:
> I have seen issues with this. It might be good for the general case of
> apt where you see what the failure is and can retry if needed. But in
> the US it caused me some aborted installations because there was some
> mirror in the rotation that was broken. debian-installer - I guess in
> this case debootstrap - does not retry a broken file. (apt also doesn't
> do that but it's harder to figure out in d-i what's going on.)
I helped improve this problem a couple years ago [0]. I guess that's
not totally solved, or maybe httpredir causes different behavior.
That is not something I've yet looked at, but I should.
debootstrap's current design is to retry package downloads up to 10
times, and then give up entirely on bootstrapping. That seems like it
should be robust, but maybe not.
Relatedly apt < 1.1~exp9 will often run into problems with httpredir
as source, so it is you could have run into that once past
debootstrap.
Best wishes,
Mike
[0] https://bugs.debian.org/618920
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