Ubuntu servers: different servers have different packages, leading to some issues

[Pierre Equoy]

Thanks all for the information!

I'm not sure what server is selected by default (in System Settings it was
just üsing "Server for Taiwan" without specifying which one).

What is the tool used to select the appropriate mirror during installation?
Do you think it could somehow select a mirror server which has the "Up to
date" status instead of a random one in the neighbourhood? (I suppose if we
can see this info in this link [1] there should be a way to do this)

Cheers

[1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Brian Murray <brian at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:50:46PM +0800, Pierre Equoy wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > First of all, if this topic is not quality-related, please let me know
> who
> > I should contact for this.
> >
> > I had a lot of small issues today while installing Ubuntu 14.04 on my
> > laptop. For instance, I could not install the proprietary nvidia drivers
> > [1] (there was some unmet dependencies issues), nor Skype (from the
> partner
> > repository, same here, unmet dependencies with skype-bin package)
> >
> > In the end, it looks like they were all linked to the server used to
> > retrieve the package list/updates.
> >
> > After I changed it from Taiwan (it was set automatically during the
> > install, I guess this option is parsed from the location you set during
> the
> > installation?) to Main Server, and did the necesary "sudo apt-get
> update",
> > it was much better.
> >
> > After switching from the Taiwanese server to the Main one, and doing a
> > "sudo apt-get upgrade", I got the following list of packages to update
> > (from a fresh install):
> >
> > --------------------
> > The following packages will be upgraded:
> >   chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra liboil0.3 liboxideqt-qmlplugin
> > liboxideqtcore0 libva1 oxideqt-codecs
> >   qtdeclarative5-ubuntu-ui-extras-browser-plugin
> > qtdeclarative5-ubuntu-ui-extras-browser-plugin-assets
> >   webapp-container webbrowser-app
> > 10 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> > --------------------
> >
> > Do you think it's normal that different servers provide different
> packages?
> > It was very misleading for me...
> >
> > A few questions:
> > - is there a document listing the different servers?
> > - who is responsible for synchronizing the different servers so they all
> > contain the same packages?
> > - could this be considered a bug? If so, under what "component" should I
> > file it?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your feedback!
>
> I found a bug report about the Taiwanese mirror being out of date,
> http://launchpad.net/bugs/1310206, and have notified the mirror admins
> about it.
>
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Pierre Equoy