On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 07:33:46PM +0100, Richard Atterer wrote: >On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 10:05:09AM -0800, Doug wrote: >> I'm a debian noob, so when I restart jigdo, what part of that URL should I >> give it to search? I'm guessing this part: >> http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2007/01/30/debian/ > >That /might/ work, but the easiest way IMHO is to download the file >yourself and to put it in the temporary directory created by jigdo. Jigdo >will find it there by itself. > >> I'm not sure why jigdo fails a lot with missing files. It says it's trying >> alternate sources, but eventually it just can't find them. [...] > >Actually, the mechanism of an alternate source tends to work quite well, >but in the case of the images you're trying to download, the problem is >that the images change every week. Once a new week's "edition" of the >images is put on the server, the old alternate source (a backup of the >packages) is also removed, so things tend to break. >This could be fixed by keeping the old backup directory a little longer, >e.g. 2 weeks in total. Hmmm. We're deliberately keeping snapshot trees around for much longer these days; any given set of jigdos should work for at least a month after they're created *unless* there was a problem during the weekly run and the snapshot wasn't created properly. >BTW, *please* do not enter snapshot.debian.net as your primary Debian >mirror from the beginning! Use your nearest mirror first and only switch >there to get the remaining files. That server does not have the resources >for the download of lots of DVD images... Yup, seconded! :-) Doug, if you're missing any more files in future that jigdo can't find even on the jigdo snapshot server, please mail a list of the missing files to debian-cd ASAP and I'll do my best to fix them. The cron scripts *should* be getting this right, but occasionally things aren't working 100%. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com "Every time you use Tcl, God kills a kitten." -- Malcolm Ray
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