Package to report against when reporting an install/upgrade failure

[Brian Murray]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 09:41:52AM +0000, Bruno Girin wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 19:58 +0000, Caroline Ford wrote:
> > It's often user error or the mirrors not being in sync. Ask for their  
> > sources.list.
> 
> Thanks. So what should be the next step when you have the sources.list
> file and it looks good? Is there any way to check that the mirror
> pointed to by the user's sources.list is working properly? In this
> cases, the user uses the ua (Ukraine) mirror while I use the gb (United
> Kingdom) one so not sure how I can verify that.

You could navigate the mirror via http and try to download the file
yourself.
 
-- 
Brian Murray                                                 @ubuntu.com
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