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.


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