On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:50:46PM +0800, Pierre Equoy wrote: > Hi there, > > First of all, if this topic is not quality-related, please let me know who > I should contact for this. > > I had a lot of small issues today while installing Ubuntu 14.04 on my > laptop. For instance, I could not install the proprietary nvidia drivers > [1] (there was some unmet dependencies issues), nor Skype (from the partner > repository, same here, unmet dependencies with skype-bin package) > > In the end, it looks like they were all linked to the server used to > retrieve the package list/updates. > > After I changed it from Taiwan (it was set automatically during the > install, I guess this option is parsed from the location you set during the > installation?) to Main Server, and did the necesary "sudo apt-get update", > it was much better. > > After switching from the Taiwanese server to the Main one, and doing a > "sudo apt-get upgrade", I got the following list of packages to update > (from a fresh install): > > -------------------- > The following packages will be upgraded: > chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra liboil0.3 liboxideqt-qmlplugin > liboxideqtcore0 libva1 oxideqt-codecs > qtdeclarative5-ubuntu-ui-extras-browser-plugin > qtdeclarative5-ubuntu-ui-extras-browser-plugin-assets > webapp-container webbrowser-app > 10 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > -------------------- > > Do you think it's normal that different servers provide different packages? > It was very misleading for me... > > A few questions: > - is there a document listing the different servers? > - who is responsible for synchronizing the different servers so they all > contain the same packages? > - could this be considered a bug? If so, under what "component" should I > file it? > > Thanks in advance for your feedback!
I found a bug report about the Taiwanese mirror being out of date, http://launchpad.net/bugs/1310206, and have notified the mirror admins about it. -- Brian Murray Ubuntu Bug Master -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality
