On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:14:12PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > Let me restate the facts. Again. Very slowly. > > ftp.au.debian.org was broken. > mirror.aarnet.edu.au was broken. > Both of the above had outdated packages, for their Packages file. > The kernel packages take up 110meg. > More megabytes, more stress. > More stress, more chance of breaking.
Why don't you mail these site's admins and find out the real reason of them breaking rather than guessing? > It's simple. You create a monster like this, you are helping (read: helping. > not solely causing. helping. don't misquote me yet again) to create more > stress on mirrors. Which makes them more likely to break. Like ftp.au.d.o > and mirror.aarnet for the last 3 days (finally fixed tonight). It's hardly the biggest package directory in Debian. With the latest version, it's even smaller than a few documentation packages. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
