I know you Debian people think it's just hilarious when users try to apt-get upgrade during the period after when the Packages files arrive on the mirrors, but before the packages they describe have fully arrived.
"Haw haw haw, try again later", you say, never thinking that maybe writing the Packages files last would be the right thing to do. "The problem can't persist more then a couple of hours, what's the big deal?" Well, the connection to mirror-upstream broke mid-mirror-push this time during Chinese New Years. Perhaps 10 days before the system administrator will be back in the office to see what happened. "Haw haw haw, try another mirror. Haw haw haw." The other local mirrors have the same problem, and their system admins are also on vacation. Foreign mirrors are on slow links. So not fixing bug 6786 (just write the [EMAIL PROTECTED] Packages file after writing the packages) causes users' apt-get upgrades to fail needlessly... down for 10 days. Great. The Debian whippersnappers don't see the danger of needlessly leaving mirrors in a broken state "for only a couple of hours a day, what's the big deal" ... well if the mirror mechanism breaks during this broken state, then "couple of hours" becomes indefinitely. I can't think of any other case in Computer Science where one updates a descriptor before updating the thing described!!! How can you defend that??? No smug remarks can defend that! "Never bothered me", yeah well wait until you are giving your next apt-get upgrade demonstration and now it's too late, you did apt-get update && apt-get upgrade instead of apt-get upgrade && apt-get update && apt-get upgrade and now you have to tell the class to "wait a couple of hours" until you can show them anything. Yeah I know, "the more I complain, the more it's not going to get done." OK, can somebody send me the section of code so I can fix it then? Err http://xxxxxx.linux.org.xx sid/main xxxxxxxxxxxx 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://xxxxxx.linux.org.xx/debian/pool/main/xxxxx Fetched 26.6MB in 2m39s (167kB/s) E: Some files failed to download Error 100 P.S., "a couple hours" is for your fancy mirror's connections. Some mirrors far away might be in the broken state (Packages* arrived, not all packages arrived) for half a day each day! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]