On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 11:05:02AM -0500, Chris Gray wrote:
> >>>>> will trillich writes:
>
> wt> what's the lag on various debian mirror sites?
> wt> % apt-get update
> wt> % apt-get upgrade
>
> wt> % apt-setup /pick a different mirror/
>
> wt> i'd just switched from ftp-mirror.internap.com to ftp.digex.net
> wt> if that matters...?
>
> wt> % apt-get update
> wt> % apt-get upgrade
> wt> Reading Package Lists... Done
> wt> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> wt> The following packages will be upgraded
> wt> bind-doc elvis-tiny ncurses-term task-dns-server tcpdump
> wt> xfree86-common xlib6g
> wt> 7 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
> wt> upgraded.
> wt> Need to get 2718kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be
> wt> used.
> wt> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
>
> wt> so am i downloading old packages from a stale mirror? or did
> wt> this mirror just now get some updates? or maybe different
> wt> mirrors have different package subsets? hmm?
>
> All of the mirrors are making a few switches right now. Testing is
> now being implemented as are package pools. It is quite possible that
> some mirrors are slower at making these changes than others.
>
> What might be happening is that you have "woody" as your distribution
> and one mirror is interpreting that as "unstable" and the other is
> interpreting it as "testing".
ah. that might explain it. (i'm in stable/potato, but the theory
still applies, of course.)
so, are my bind-doc/elvis-tiny/ncurses-term/task-dns-server/tcpdump
packages likely to be in jeopardy now? or retro-fitted?
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