Re: Re: Missing package on mirror

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw@iprimus.com.au>]

> On 2004-01-09, Russell Shaw penned:
>>  Hi, I did: apt-get update from unstable, then:
>>
>>  apt-get install php4-pgsql
>>
> [snip]
>>
>>  What do i do now?
>>
>
> Wait.
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=202393
>
> If you generally use dselect or aptitude, you can use '=' to put the
> package on hold, so that they won't continually try to install it.

Hi,
That bug is quite old, and seems to be not precisely the thing i'm
seeing. I found that the package catalog:

  ftp://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages

contains:

  Package: php4-pgsql
  Priority: optional
  Section: web
  Installed-Size: 112
  Maintainer: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
  Architecture: i386
  Version: 3:4.3.3-1
  Replaces: php4-cgi-pgsql
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libpq3 (>= 7.3.1), phpapi-20020918, debconf (>= 0.5)
  Filename: pool/main/p/php4-pgsql/php4-pgsql_4.3.3-1_i386.deb
  ...

However, 4.3.3-1 is not on the mirror. There is only:

  FTP Listing of /pub/linux/debian/pool/main/p/php4-pgsql at ftp.monash.edu.au
  Up to higher level directory

  php4-pgsql_4.1.2-4.diff....         7,091 Apr 02 2002 00:00 GNU Zip Compressed Data
  php4-pgsql_4.1.2-4.dsc                701 Apr 02 2002 00:00
  php4-pgsql_4.1.2-4_i386....        20,900 Apr 02 2002 00:00
  php4-pgsql_4.1.2.orig.ta...       168,190 Apr 02 2002 00:00 GNU Zip Compressed Data
  php4-pgsql_4.3.2+rc3-3.d...         7,936 Sep 03 2003 02:32 GNU Zip Compressed Data
  php4-pgsql_4.3.2+rc3-3.d...           710 Sep 03 2003 02:32
  php4-pgsql_4.3.2+rc3-3_i...        36,922 Sep 03 2003 02:32
  php4-pgsql_4.3.2+rc3.ori...       216,482 Aug 17 2003 03:32 GNU Zip Compressed Data

The packages file gets used in the system at:

  /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.monash.edu.au_pub_linux_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages

So what do you do when the mirror is in error?