** Description changed: [Impact] * since ubuntu disco, main repositories contains 'cnf' directory with 'Commands*' files. those files are compressed with xy, whereas apt- mirror 0.5.1 doesn't contain the patch which enable download of .xz compressed files * Without this update, users are not able to mirror newer releases of Ubuntu. [Test Case] * On any release of Ubuntu install apt-mirror and add this line to /etc/apt/mirror.list: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-updates main restricted universe multiverse * sync the mirror using `apt-mirror` * Attempt to run `apt update` against the mirror. The result will be similar to: ... Err:7 http://10.3.0.41/ubuntu eoan-updates/main amd64 c-n-f Metadata 404 Not Found [IP: 10.3.0.41 80] Ign:14 http://10.3.0.41/ubuntu eoan-updates/multiverse amd64 c-n-f Metadata Ign:15 http://10.3.0.41/ubuntu eoan-updates/universe amd64 c-n-f Metadata Ign:16 http://10.3.0.41/ubuntu eoan-updates/restricted amd64 c-n-f Metadata Reading package lists... Done E: Failed to fetch http://10.3.0.41/ubuntu/dists/eoan-updates/main/cnf/Commands-amd64 404 Not Found [IP: 10.3.0.41 80] E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. ... * Updating the apt-mirror package from ppa:slashd/test and then re- running the `apt-mirror` command will then allow a successful `apt update`. [Regression Potential] * The regression potential is low since the package doesn't currently work properly anyway. * It's a patchset from a fork repo, if apt-mirror upstream becomes alive again in the future, it won't necessary mean that the fork will be commited/merged upstream, and Ubuntu package might differ from original upstream until next version bump. [Other informations] - The required patchset is from a fork of upstream apt-mirror josbraden - /apt-mirror (https://github.com/josbraden/apt-mirror) + Not much update has been made since Upstream become inactive as noted + from the output of rmadison: + + Since Bionic, it is a simple copy from release to active devel release + and so on directly from debian, no patching whatsoever and nothing new + to pull from Debian as well. + + ---- + Ubuntu + apt-mirror | 0.5.1-1ubuntu1 | xenial/universe | source, all + apt-mirror | 0.5.4-1 | bionic/universe | source, all + apt-mirror | 0.5.4-1 | disco/universe | source, all + apt-mirror | 0.5.4-1 | eoan/universe | source, all + apt-mirror | 0.5.4-1 | focal/universe | source, all + apt-mirror | 0.5.4-1 | groovy/universe | source, all + + Debian + apt-mirror 0.5.4-1 is found in sid/unstable + --- + + + The required patchset is from a fork of upstream apt-mirror josbraden/apt-mirror (https://github.com/josbraden/apt-mirror) Note that upstream apt-mirror is not active anymore, and is looking for a new maintainer as published in their github page: https://github.com /apt-mirror/apt-mirror That's why we have to rely on the fork atm. The required patchset are (tested by Chris in the form of a test pkg: 0001-Copy-DEP-11-functions-for-editing.patch 0001-Replace-DEP-11-with-cnf-in-DEP-11-code-copy.patch 0001-Fix-Regex.patch 0001-Improve-regex-for-cnf-file-matching.patch 0001-Remove-dev-note.patch 0001-Fix-missing-parenthesis.patch I also talked with sil2100 (SRU verification team member) about the feasibilty of this SRU (from a fork repo): " <sil2100> Yeah, I'd say fixes from forked repositories in this case make sense Since there's no longer any 'one authority' for it. "
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