Debian Bug report logs - #797491
mirrors: using the http-redirector gives stale mirrors from last 3-4 days

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: shirish शिरीष <shirishag75@gmail.com>

To: debian-bts <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: mirrors: using the http-redirector gives stale mirrors from last 3-4 days

Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 07:32:03 +0530

Package: mirrors
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,
I have been using the http-redirector to update the index. From the
last 2-3 days though, I have been getting stale mirrors, for e.g. just
now tried and got  http://ftp.th.debian.org/debian as well as
http://debian.xtdv.net/debian . Is there some sort of knob or
something somewhere which ensures that the mirror apt/aptitude/apt-get
picks up is a fresh one relative to the time-stamp at your end or then
tries another mirror for fresher content.

If this is possible, would like to see this exposed to the user too so
s/he can also see that.

And while the debian/release and apt policy might look at odds, I have
couple of other machines which are fully on sid and show the same
symptoms.

Looking forward to know more.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental'), (1, 'unstable'), (1, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

-- 
          Regards,
          Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
  My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0
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Message #10 received at 797491-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Donald Norwood <dnorwood@portalus.com>

To: 797491-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: mirrors: using the http-redirector gives stale mirrors from last 3-4 days

Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 00:19:33 -0400

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Hello,

The http-redirector periodically checks the mirrors in order to provide
the requester with a mirror that is in sync with the archive master and
that fits the request. In this instance there was an issue regarding
file validation that unfortunately paused the mirror update process from
the master and down throughout the archive. It has since been corrected
and the mirrors should be current shortly.


Thank you for your support,

Donald Norwood


On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 07:32:03 +0530
=?UTF-8?B?c2hpcmlzaCDgpLbgpL/gpLDgpYDgpLc=?= <shirishag75@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: mirrors
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
> I have been using the http-redirector to update the index. From the
> last 2-3 days though, I have been getting stale mirrors, for e.g. just
> now tried and got http://ftp.th.debian.org/debian as well as
> http://debian.xtdv.net/debian . Is there some sort of knob or
> something somewhere which ensures that the mirror apt/aptitude/apt-get
> picks up is a fresh one relative to the time-stamp at your end or then
> tries another mirror for fresher content.
>
> If this is possible, would like to see this exposed to the user too so
> s/he can also see that.
>
> And while the debian/release and apt policy might look at odds, I have
> couple of other machines which are fully on sid and show the same
> symptoms.
>
> Looking forward to know more.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
> APT prefers stable-updates
> APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
> 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable'), (1, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
> --
> Regards,
> Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल
> My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
> http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com
> EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8
>
>

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