Re: apt-get update doesn't work?

[Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>]

Pascal Hakim <pasc@redellipse.net> writes:
> ftp.us.debian.org points to a few different machines, so it's quite
> possible for different people to get different results.
>
> If there's a mirror behind there that is missing some files, it might
> be worth telling the mirror team about it.
>
> 12:01 ~% host ftp.us.debian.org
> ftp.us.debian.org has address 35.9.37.225
> ftp.us.debian.org has address 128.101.240.212
> ftp.us.debian.org has address 204.152.191.7
> ftp.us.debian.org has address 216.37.55.114

It fails quite consistently for me... and as far as I can tell, the
error indicates something's wrong with the downloaded file (or my
machine), not that it failed to find it on the server -- the "no such
file" error it gets later seems to because the initial problem with the
file's contents caused the download to delete the destination file.

Additionally, when using aptitude, I get "gzip: stdin: not in gzip format"
errors, and noting that it seem to be downloading .bz2 files, it seems
like somethign is expecting gzip format, but the files on the server are
bzip2 files...?

Thanks,

-Miles

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