on Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 11:05:41AM -0800, Brian Nelson (nelson@bignachos.com) wrote: > Craig Dickson <crdic@yahoo.com> writes: > > > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > I'm getting problems with 404 codes on apt-get dist-upgrade or install > > > attempts, in particular, from http.us.debian.org. > > > > I've seen that occasionally, but usually if I try again after an hour, > > everything's fine. The only exception to that was Wednesday evening this > > week, where the 404's persisted. I took Mozilla and went to look at a > > directory listing of the site, and indeed, the files that the package > > listed claimed were available simply weren't there. > > > > Thursday evening, all went well. I'm surprised you're having this > > problem late Thursday night, assuming that you sent your mail after > > verifying that the problem was still present. > > > > As to what causes this, I have no idea, but I think it could be > > prevented if the mirroring system made sure that the actual package tree > > was updated before the package list. > > Word on the devel list was that the ftp-master (auric) went down in > the middle of a sync, and hence the inconsistencies. Should be fixed > by now. Hmm... Any discussion on making syncs atomic, so that until a the update's completed, the old packages are available, and the old package files are authoritative? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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