Hello Goswin, On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 01:17:29PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > This is a sideeffect of the support for missing Release files. When > the file is missing the md5sums and sizes for Packages files are > unknown. So the --ignore-missing-release option disables the md5sum > and size check for the Packages files as well as not failing when > Release file can't be found. In your case the Release file can be > found but contains no usefull information (for debmirror), which is > pretty much the same as no Release file. The same code path applies.
Thanks much for the explanation! What do you think about the following: diff -Naurp debmirror-20051209.orig/debmirror debmirror-20051209/debmirror --- debmirror-20051209.orig/debmirror 2005-12-09 19:13:09.000000000 +0100 +++ debmirror-20051209/debmirror 2006-08-07 11:25:28.000000000 +0200 @@ -228,7 +228,8 @@ Download at most number of files with ea =item --ignore-missing-release -Don't fail if the Release file is missing. +Don't fail if the Release file is missing or MD5 sums of Packages files +cannot be verified. =item --ignore-release-gpg With kind regards, Baurzhan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]