[Bug 898116] Re: apt can't deal gracefully with broken mirrors in mirrors.txt

[Robert Roth]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 601916 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/601916

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** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 601916
   mirror: method should try the next mirror on 404

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Title:
  apt can't deal gracefully with broken mirrors in mirrors.txt

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I use the mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt trick in
  /etc/apt/sources.list, which is an excellent feature since I don't
  know where boxes will end up. But if mirrors.txt output contains a
  mirror which responds to http requests but is no longer a reasonable
  up2date mirror such as http://ubuntu.washdc-linux.com/ubuntu/ (seems
  to be squatted ATM) apt-get will throw errors such as these:

  W: Failed to fetch
  mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt/dists/maverick/Release.gpg
  Connection failed [Mirror:  http://ubuntu.washdc-linux.com/ubuntu/]

  What I would expect 'apt-get update' to do is to select (randomly)
  another mirror from mirrors.txt if it receives unworkable output, or
  fall back to countrycode.archive.ubuntu.com or something more
  graceful.

  Tested on: Ubuntu 10.10, x86_64, with apt 0.8.3ubuntu7.3

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