Hi ftpmasters, Can you tell us where the woody-proposed-updates can be found? Did you forgot to create these?
For your reference: On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:38:51AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 06.02.2008, 14:15 +0100 schrieb Jens Seidel: > > Ralph probably forgot a "apt-get update" but nevertheless the following > > APT source does no longer exist: > > > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US proposed-updates/non-US main > > contrib non-free > > > > Does anyone know a mirror for Woody and other (older?) systems? > > As archive.debian.org lives in US TTBOMK it doesn't carry the non-US > part, and I'm not aware of any archive-non-US host ... > > But this exists: > #v+ > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody-proposed-updates/non-US main > contrib non-free > #v- > > I guess non-us.d.o itself is the archive for the non-us parts anyway. > > > Also the usage of > > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian proposed-updates main contrib non-free > > in hour site is bad as it refers now probably to Etch whereas it referred > > in the past to Woody. We should use code names instead. > > Indeed - unfortunately I don't see any woody-proposed-updates on > archive.debian.org? Were there none when woody got moved to the archive? > I would guess even then it would be a good idea to have (empty) files > there -- on the other hand people have to edit their sources.list anyway > to use the archive. > > > Where are currently proposed updates for Woody? > > There are none. > > > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/ lists sarge-proposed-updates/, > > etch-proposed-updates/, lenny-proposed-updates/, oldstable-proposed-updates/ > > but no woody-proposed-updates/ or oldoldstable-proposed-updates/ :-) > > Because woody got removed from the mirrors and moved to the archive. > > > Even http://archive.debian.org/dists/ misses woody-proposed-updates/ but > > provides {hamm,potato,slink}-proposed-updates. > > See above about my guessings along that lines. > > > > Would it make sense to update some links to old releases to point to > > > http://archive.debian.org/? Probably not ... > > > > Oops, Ralph convinced me that it is important to update even old release > > pages as Woody may still be used in production (even I have still such a > > old system). > > And it had been done in the past, see e.g. potato pages. > > > I will try to update the pages but need at least woody-proposed-updates ... > > You don't "need" them. If it was empty it gains nothing to list it, but > if it wasn't (which I have no idea about - propably the people doing the > move to the archive know?) it should get fixed. > > So long, > Rhonda -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
