Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64
On Fri 15 May 2015 at 22:03:59 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Bob Proulx (bob@proulx.com):
>
> > When the program looks up the ftp.us.debian.org name it will get all
> > three of the above in some order. If your system is IPv6 capable it
> > will prefer the IPv6 address and always use it. If not then it will
> > select one of the two IPv4 addresses and use it. The different mirror
> > sites are using different software. Some sites advertise their own
> > information and others do not. The archive data provided is the same
> > in either case. And regardless the Release file is cryptographically
> > signed and checksumed such that it can be trusted regardless of the
> > host transporting it. We appreciate the mirrors making their
> > bandwidth and hosting available for Debian mirrors.
>
> Thanks for that clear exposition. I myself have had no problem with
> these differences (assuming they could even be relevant). But can you
> throw any light on why Pierre is apparently being served a .xz
> compressed file by ftp.fr.debian.org which is making apt-get
> (presumably expecting to receive a .gz file) fail to verify the
> digest? (I can't even try reproducing this as I'm i386 and he's amd64.)
A comparison of the outputs from 'apt-config dump' on both laptops might
give something.
Unreproducible here on a new bare-bones i386 Wheezy install with the
same mirror.
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