[wellylug] APT Mirrors broken?

[Jamie Baddeley]

munter:/home/viewpoint# apt-get  update
Hit http://linux.citylink.co.nz sarge/main Packages
Hit http://linux.citylink.co.nz sarge/main Release
Hit http://linux.citylink.co.nz sarge/contrib Packages
Hit http://linux.citylink.co.nz sarge/contrib Release
Hit http://linux.citylink.co.nz sarge/non-free Packages
Hit http://linux.citylink.co.nz sarge/non-free Release
Hit http://linux.citylink.co.nz sarge/non-US/main Packages
Hit http://linux.citylink.co.nz sarge/non-US/main Release
Hit http://linux.citylink.co.nz sarge/non-US/contrib Packages
Hit http://linux.citylink.co.nz sarge/non-US/contrib Release
Hit http://linux.citylink.co.nz sarge/non-US/non-free Packages
Hit http://linux.citylink.co.nz sarge/non-US/non-free Release
Get:1 http://security.debian.org sarge/updates/main Packages [110kB]
Get:2 http://security.debian.org sarge/updates/main Release [110B]
Hit http://security.debian.org sarge/updates/contrib Packages
Get:3 http://security.debian.org sarge/updates/contrib Release [113B]
Hit http://security.debian.org sarge/updates/non-free Packages
Get:4 http://security.debian.org sarge/updates/non-free Release [114B]
Fetched 110kB in 2s (53.4kB/s)
Reading Package Lists... Done
munter:/home/viewpoint# apt-get  upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
munter:/home/viewpoint#

OK here in telstra land.

jamie







On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 22:46 +1200, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> I've been looking around for reliable APT mirrors and I've 
> come to the conclusion that things are somewhat munted 
> somewhere in the APT department. I can apt-get update 
> usually without too many problems, but now and then I get 
> errors, of various sorts - 503s and 404s for example. 
> Checksum errors.
> 
> But when I apt-get upgrade I seem to get errors much of the 
> times of various sorts. But if it fails, I just try a bit 
> later and the files that got missed get brought down fine!
> 
> It doesn't seem to matter which mirrors I use. I see the 
> same problems on the US mirrors, or the UK mirrors and on 
> other mirrors.
> 
> Is it just me or is there a systemic problem? It makes 
> automating the process pretty hard.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Cliff
>