retitle 421024 ftp.fi.debian.org not consistent during updates thanks
Dear ftp.fi.debian.org admins, The issue reported below is typical of a sync script that doesn't try to be atomical, i.e. that updates the packages pool and the list of packages in sequence. As a consequence, packages that are referenced in the Packages.gz can be not yet available in the pool (or no longer in the reverse case). In the recent rsync versions, the --delay-updates and --delete-after options combined with a two stages rsync allow to greatly reduce the time a Debian mirror is not consistent and users cannot fetch packages. So every Debian mirror admin should use these new options. Be careful, --delete-after is space consuming during the update ! We strongly encourage you to use the official example script updated to use these options: <http://www.debian.org/mirrors/anonftpsync> Please confirm that you switch to that kind of atomic sync script. Best regards and thanks for mirroring Debian, On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 12:42:14AM +0300, Touko Korpela wrote: > ftp.fi.debian.org mirror appears to update Release and Packages before > packages themselves (or part) are fetched. That causes errors like: > > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Selected version 2007e-6 (Debian:unstable) for tzdata > The following packages will be upgraded: > tzdata > 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 73 not upgraded. > Need to get 360kB of archives. > After unpacking 4096B of additional disk space will be used. > Get:1 ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org unstable/main tzdata 2007e-6 [360kB] > Err ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org unstable/main tzdata 2007e-6 > Unable to fetch file, server said > '/debian/pool/main/t/tzdata/tzdata_2007e-6_all.deb: No such file or > directory. ' [IP: 130.230.54.99 21] > Failed to fetch > ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/tzdata/tzdata_2007e-6_all.deb > Unable to fetch file, server said > '/debian/pool/main/t/tzdata/tzdata_2007e-6_all.deb: No such file or > directory. ' [IP: 130.230.54.99 21] > E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with > --fix-missing? -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
