On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 17:52, Dan Jacobson wrote: > How do the mirrors work? Are the Packages files always copied last, > to ensure all the versions mentioned in them already exist on the disk > when you try to get them? > > In what cases could an hours old Packages file mention packages that > apparently haven't been copied to the mirror yet? E.g.
Possible. Could be a bad copy of files. Could be anything. Try manually browsing the mirror using your webbrowser or lftp etc. to see if the files are there. > ERROR 404: Not Found. > Plenty of space there: > $ df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hdc1 118729904 103213752 14309912 88% /home/ftp > /dev/hdd1 118729904 104041660 13482004 89% /home/ftp/pub Are you saying that you have shell access to the mirror you use?!?!? -- .''`. Paul William : :' : Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]