Package: ftp.debian.org Hi,
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 02:47:47PM +1100, Geoff Crompton wrote: > I've noticed today the installation of a VM isn't working. > > I think it may be because when I download > http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian/dists/wheezy/main/i18n/Translation-en, > I get a bz2 compressed file instead. I've also noticed that at > http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian/dists/wheezy/main/i18n/ the > uncompressed file isn't listed. > > I don't think the Debian installer expects that. The > http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian/dists/wheezy/Release file suggests I > should be able to download either main/i18n/Translation-en or > main/i18n/Translation-en.bz2. But the file lies, as there is no dists/wheezy/main/i18n/Translation-en in the archive, but only dists/wheezy/main/i18n/Translation-en.bz2 http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/i18n/Index The same problem applies to Packages, Sources, which are not provided uncompressed. On a mirror of the archive, the following command provide the list of missing files: perl -lne 'my $file = $1 if /^ [a-f0-9]+\s+\d+\s+(.*)/; print $file if (defined($file) and ! -f $file) ;' Release The archive should be fixed: * either by providing uncompressed files * or by making the Release file consistent with reality. The fact that sometimes http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian/dists/wheezy/main/i18n/Translation-en returns something is apache multiviews and content negociation: apt says it may accept bz2, then apache finds a file with and bz2 extension and considers it's good. See also apt bug #657560 $ wget -S -O /dev/null 'http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/puLANG=C b/debian/dists/wheezy/main/i18n/Translation-en' Connecting to mirror.aarnet.edu.au (mirror.aarnet.edu.au)|202.158.214.106|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... HTTP/1.1 200 OK [..] Content-Location: Translation-en.bz2 Vary: negotiate TCN: choice Last-Modified: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 10:07:28 GMT Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Type: application/x-bzip2 -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
