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

[Andrew Pollock]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 07:23:59AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> 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.
> 

In fact, being the incredibly patient bloke that I am, I just ran a sync
manually, and it should be all good now.

regards

Andrew