On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 10:26:13AM +1000, Brendon Lloyd Higgins wrote:
> Sebastian Luque wrote (Wednesday 27 July 2005 7:12 am):
> > > I don't know what's going on in the mirror system. I had some weirdness
> > > over the last 3 or 4 days where I wasn't showing any new upgrades.
> > > One or two days I don't think anything of it, when it stretches to 3 or
> > > 4 I start to wonder. Looking at the obsoleted packages in synaptic
> > > displayed the xorg packages as obsolete and checking the available
> > > versions showed that an earlier set of packages was listed as the
> > > current unstable release. ???
> >
> > Same here, I began worrying about this yesterday, after about 6 days
> > without updates showing up. I don't know about xorg packages, as I'm not
> > using them, but the lack of updates for so long is very unusual.
>
> I've been wondering about this too. I suspect that it might have something to
> do with ftp-master being taken down and moved the last few days, but I don't
> know nearly enough about the whole repository process to know if this hunch
> is correct or not. Anyone want to fill us in?
>
Hi Brendon,
http://debian.home.pipeline.com/newdebian2.png
describes the 'process'.
Cheers,
Kev
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