Hello,
from time to time (about 1-2 time in three month) debmirror fails with the following error:
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$ /usr/bin/debmirror -v /tmp/debian --arch=i386 --host=debian.tu-bs.de --nosource --getcontents --dist=testing
Mirroring to /home1/ftp/pub/debian/debian from ftp://anonymous:debian.tu-bs.de//debian/
Arches: i386
Dists: testing
Sections: main,contrib,non-free,main/debian-installer
Attempting to get lock, this might take 2 minutes before it fails.
Get Release files.
[0%] Getting: dists/testing/Release
[0%] Getting: dists/testing/Release.gpgWon't mirror without dists/testing/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz signature in Release at /usr/bin/debmirror line 1094.
releasing 1 pending lock... at /usr/lib/perl5/LockFile/Simple.pm line 182.
Get Packages and Sources files and other miscellany.
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The target directory does not contain a single file:
$ ls -aR /tmp/debian /tmp/debian: . .. dists .temp
/tmp/debian/dists: . .. testing
/tmp/debian/dists/testing: . .. main
/tmp/debian/dists/testing/main: . .. binary-i386
/tmp/debian/dists/testing/main/binary-i386: . ..
/tmp/debian/.temp: . .. dists
/tmp/debian/.temp/dists: . .. testing
/tmp/debian/.temp/dists/testing: . .. main
/tmp/debian/.temp/dists/testing/main: . .. binary-i386
/tmp/debian/.temp/dists/testing/main/binary-i386: . ..
When asking Google for this problem the question is often asked but never answered precisely. It is a little bit hard to file a bug report because it might be a cooincidence with several other things. At least I tried four different Debian mirrors as --host argument to make sure that the source host is not the problem.
Any idea?
Kind regards
Andreas.
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