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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