Incomplete NZ mirror

[Anton Melser]

Hi guys,
Unfortunately I'm on the road now and can't check (I'm writing this from my
phone...) properly. The problem was with the default mirror with an NZ
locale install. If the packages have been synched and the scripts updated
then everything should be fine now. I must say I'm a bit surprised that this
wasn't reported earlier - doesn't say good things about Ubuntu usage in Enz
:-(. We still have plenty of work to do!
Thanks for your time and your work on maintaining the mirrors.
Anton

Sent on the go...
On 7/01/2011 10:07 PM, "Simon Blake" <simon at citylink.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi Anton
>
> Assuming you're using nz.archive.ubuntu.com (the Citylink mirror that I
> run), can you try again now please? I noticed there were some files
> missing a few days ago, and have since fixed the mirror scripts we use
> (which is to say, replaced them with ftpsync from debian). If you're
> still seeing missing files, I'd like to know about it.
>
> Cheers
> Simon
>
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 02:57:43PM +1300, Dan Hawke said:
>> 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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