Re: stale apt-get mirrors?

[Chris Gray <cgray@tribsoft.com>]

>>>>> will trillich writes:

    wt> what's the lag on various debian mirror sites?
    wt> 	% apt-get update
    wt> 	% apt-get upgrade

    wt> 	% apt-setup /pick a different mirror/

    wt> i'd just switched from ftp-mirror.internap.com to ftp.digex.net
    wt> if that matters...?

    wt> 	% apt-get update
    wt> 	% apt-get upgrade
    wt>     Reading Package Lists... Done
    wt>     Building Dependency Tree... Done
    wt>     The following packages will be upgraded
    wt>       bind-doc elvis-tiny ncurses-term task-dns-server tcpdump
    wt>     xfree86-common xlib6g
    wt>     7 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
    wt>     upgraded.
    wt>     Need to get 2718kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be
    wt>     used.
    wt>     Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

    wt> so am i downloading old packages from a stale mirror? or did
    wt> this mirror just now get some updates? or maybe different
    wt> mirrors have different package subsets? hmm?

All of the mirrors are making a few switches right now.  Testing is
now being implemented as are package pools.  It is quite possible that
some mirrors are slower at making these changes than others.  

What might be happening is that you have "woody" as your distribution
and one mirror is interpreting that as "unstable" and the other is
interpreting it as "testing".

Cheers,
Chris

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