[wellylug] APT Mirrors broken?

[Cliff Pratt]

Well, I couldn't get anywhere near citylink a while back so 
I gave up on them. Maybe I'll try them again. Thanks.

Cheers,

Cliff

Jamie Baddeley wrote:
> 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.
>>