On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:53:03PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Maybe its too difficult to provide consistent package files for the short > > window while the mirror updates are running. No cons. > > > > But is it possible to set some kind of flag to indicate that I am probably > > downloading just some inconsistent files and that I should wait till the > > update of the mirror is complete? I have no problem with waiting, but > > currently I can just try and check whether there was an error. > > It would be pretty simple to create a file to indicate this condition, > which could be tested for when doing an update. However, I don't see how > it would provide any additional information over the error messages from > missing packages.
A lock file called Archive-Update-in-Progress-`hostname -f` is used by the ftpsync which is the canonical mirroring method; however, not all mirrors do that, nor does any client program check for it. I guess it wouldn't be hard to make a script to try wgetting such a file and abort if successful and hook it up before apt-get somehow... -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
