On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 03:25:51PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
[...]
> > > The problem is that they probably don't want to mirror the whole potato
> > > tree, which is several GB of data, while only 132 packages upon thousands
> > > can be useful for woody...
> >
> > Read what people tell you. You need to mirror every package listed in
> > Packages file for having a complete Woody. If you do that, only those
> > 130 packages will be downloaded. You don't need at all the whole
> > potato tree.
>
> Not all mirrors use debmirror... some only use mirror... there's nothing you
> can do about that except sending complaining emails to all these mirrors, or
> simply circumvent the whole problem by relocating these packages inside the
> pool.
1. Make a list of broken mirrors and send it to
debian-mirrors@lists.debian.org
2. Packages file is the canonical place for packages in a
distribution. If that file is not being parsed for getting packages,
you can leave some out.
> By the way, the whole archive should be in the pool...
Yes, once those packages has been upgraded or removed. There is
currently a BSP behing held at #debian-bugs IRC channel at
irc.freenode.org. if some of those packages has open grave bugs, go
there fix the packages and get someone to NMU them.
--
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
jsogo@debian.org
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