Re: problem with some mirrors

[Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>]

* Andrew Shugg (andrew@neep.com.au) [050608 04:35]:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 04:36:59PM +0200, Luca Gibelli wrote:
> > while testing the mirrors listed on your website
> > (http://volatile.debian.net/mirrors.html) I found that two of them were not
> > working as expected:
> > 
> > deb http://ftp.neep.com.au/debian-volatile sarge/volatile main (404)
> > deb http://planetmirror.com/pub/debian-volatile sarge/volatile main (302)
> > 
> > Perhaps ftp.neep.com.au should be listed as:
> > 
> > ftp.neep.com.au		/pub/debian-volatile
> 
> That's absolutely correct: indeed that is the URL that I sent to the
> original debian-volatile list, but I think that the '/pub' was dropped
> by accident when it was added to the mirrors page.
> 
> The 302 from PlanetMirror is expected - anonymous requests to that URL
> are redirected to 'http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/debian-volatile/'
> and authenticated to 'http://premium.planetmirror.com/...'.  Is that
> actually a problem for apt-get?  If so then I suggest that the mirror
> listing be changed to use 'public.planetmirror'.


Thanks. We'll do both changes soon (actually, currently we're still in
recovering from the amount of time the release of sarge costed all of us
- will be better pretty soon now :).


Cheers,
Andi