Ken Irving wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 03:59:36PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > but there is a problem that affect all debian mirrors: > > old packages exists with a corresponding Packages/Sources file > > when new packages are moved in, old packages are removed > > the Packages/Sources file may not match while this transition is > > happening. This means that if you apt-get during this period, the > > Package/Sources file will want to get OLDPKG when it was just removed. > > Hopefully this is an accurate description from my understanding. > > That sounds pretty bad; surely there could be someone updating at any > given time, so this problem must occur pretty frequently. Are there > really no safeguards against this? Perhaps taking the mirror offline > or otherwise locking it might be necessary. Old packages are not removed from the archive immediately, so old Packages files that refer to them continue to work. -- see shy jo
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