Incomplete NZ mirror

[Dan Hawke]

Hi Anton,

I can at least give a shot at helping out with the first part of that problem...  I run the NZ University of Canterbury mirror - is our mirror one of the ones you've tried?  Could you give me an example package that was missing if it was, so I can investigate this for you?

Cheers,

Dan Hawke
Linux Server Support

On 5/01/2011, at 1:41 PM, Anton Melser wrote:

> Hi,
> The NZ mirrors are missing packages, and this causes upgrades to fail.
> This has apparently been the case for quite a while - a few months ago
> my father attempted to upgrade and it didn't work. When I tried, the
> update manager complained about 403 errors (not 404s which probably
> would be more logical). I then had a bit of a look and noticed that
> packages were missing. This was a couple of weeks ago and I have just
> upgraded my cousin's computer, only to find the same problems.
> Changing the package source to main fixed everything both times.
> The problem is two-fold:
> 
> 1. The mirror is incomplete.
> 2. When installing a supported locale Ubuntu chooses an incomplete
> mirror by default.
> 
> Probably the optimal solution would be for Ubuntu to auto-magically
> detect that a mirror is incomplete and switch to main, though this is
> probably not for you guys. Coming from maintainers would certainly
> carry more weight than coming from me though! In any case, the
> synching scripts aren't working properly - I couldn't find where to
> declare this so am posting here.
> Thanks for your ideas and input.
> Cheers
> Anton
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