Re: Conflict between Packages file and actual files

1997-05-29 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes: I've since seen that ftp.debian.org obviously mirrors somewhere around 19:40-20:50, local time for master, while the maintenance scripts run somewhere in the 11:50-13:40 range, again local time for master. ftp mirrors twice a day at 9 and 21

Re: Conflict between Packages file and actual files

1997-05-26 Thread Mark Eichin
Just a pointer -- CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, inspired by CTAN [s/Perl/TeX/]) has some tools for monitoring their mirrors for freshness and accuracy; you can probably find the tools and reports from any CPAN site or from the perl website... or else ask on the perl-packrats

Re: Conflict between Packages file and actual files

1997-05-25 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) wrote on 24.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hmm. Some thing that might help is a regular automatic comparision of ftp.debian.org and master.debian.org. I'll think about that for a while ... I just wrote something. First result: at this moment, master and ftp

Re: Conflict between Packages file and actual files

1997-05-24 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Buddha Buck) wrote on 23.05.97 in btWcb1.0.S23.gCSXp@debian: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is a continuous problem. I don't know why ftp.debian.org takes so long to get in sync with master, but the problem simply propogates from there to all the

Re: Conflict between Packages file and actual files

1997-05-24 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes: This leaves manual maintenance. I don't know how this is usually handled; but it doesn't happen very often. All installs to confirm distributions are manual. Frozen and stable are confirm, so that's why there are so many errors. Guy -- TO

Re: Conflict between Packages file and actual files

1997-05-23 Thread Chris Walker
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 22 May 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Thu, 22 May 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Thu, 22 May 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: In /frozen, the packages file shows: procmail_3.10.4-1.deb modconf-0.2.9.deb The actual files

Re: Conflict between Packages file and actual files

1997-05-23 Thread Buddha Buck
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is a continuous problem. I don't know why ftp.debian.org takes so long to get in sync with master, but the problem simply propogates from there to all the additional mirrors. Debian is the only distribution I know that depends so heavily on