On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 03:14:45PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I see a doubled slash, but no indication it has anything to do with the > problem you experienced. > > joey@wren:~> wget -q http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian//dists/squeeze/Release > -O - | grep -E '^(Suite|Codename):' > Suite: stable > Codename: squeeze > > Do you have a broken proxy, or something else that makes // not work? > Do you have any reason to think this was not just a transient network problem?
I saw this recently too when a machine in fact did not have a working network link. Too bad the error couldn't be "Network connection failed" rather than "invalid release on mirror". I guess since grep is what gives a return code there isn't any easy to way to know what wget thought of the request. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111208192646.ge9...@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
