[clug] Backports on mirror.linux.org.au

[Andrew Pollock]

On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 02:15:06PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 14:17 +1000, Chris Delfs wrote:
> > I am trying to use the backports mirror on mirror.linux.org.au
> > I've inserted this line in source.list
> > deb http://mirror.linux.org.au/backports.org/ sarge-backports main
> > contrib non-free
> > 
> 
> Check the error messages closely:
> 
> 
> > Failed to fetch
> > http://mirror.linux.org.au/backports.org/dists/sarge-backports/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 
> > 404 Not Found
> 
> Check that directory manually and you'll see it really is not there.
> Check your normal repository and you'll see that Packages.gz  is there
> in the equivalent location.
> 
> Nothing you can do about it, the repository is broke.  You could try a
> different one.
> 

Gar. Turns out this has never been syncing correctly. Hopefully the next run
in 10 hours will work better.

Would have been nice to report this to us though. I try to dogfood the
mirror as much as possible, but I'm not a bit user of backports, so this is
one bit I haven't tried out.

regards

Andrew