Activity on Debian unstable (sid) archives

Activity on Debian unstable (sid) archives

[Charles Hallenbeck]

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Hi people,

For some days now, I have had no new postings reported when doing "apt-get update" for the unstable packages. That seems 
strange to me, but I find no obvious errors on my system to account for it. Is anyone else following unstable closely, 
and are you getting productive apt-get updates this week?

Thanks,
Chuck

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Re: Activity on Debian unstable (sid) archives

[Lorenzo Taylor]

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I am running Unstable and have had no trouble updating.  There have been
relatively few new packages added, but the upgrades are about the same as usual.
However, since packages.debian.org is down, it is impossible to get some info
about packages, for example changelogs, before installing them.

HTH,
Lorenzo
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Re: Activity on Debian unstable (sid) archives

[Charles Hallenbeck]

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Hmm .. I am following mirrors.kernel.org/debian, as well as the merrilat  site, and it has been at least four days since 
apt-get update has retrieved anything except the signature data. Very strange.


On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 10:23:33AM -0500, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
> I am running Unstable and have had no trouble updating.  There have been
> relatively few new packages added, but the upgrades are about the same as usual.
> However, since packages.debian.org is down, it is impossible to get some info
> about packages, for example changelogs, before installing them.
> 
> HTH,
> Lorenzo
> -- 
> Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.
> 		-- Mark Twain
> 
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Re: Activity on Debian unstable (sid) archives

[Lorenzo Taylor]

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I wonder if it may be possible that mirrors.kernel.org isn't synchronizing.  I
am following debian.hands.com and debian.secsup.org and they seem to be updating
without any problems.

HTH,
Lorenzo
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Re: Activity on Debian unstable (sid) archives

[Charles Hallenbeck]

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I think I will plug them in and see what happens.

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 10:33:22AM -0500, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
> I wonder if it may be possible that mirrors.kernel.org isn't synchronizing.  I
> am following debian.hands.com and debian.secsup.org and they seem to be updating
> without any problems.
> 
> HTH,
> Lorenzo
> -- 
> When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know who have gone
> to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.
> 		-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
> 
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Re: Activity on Debian unstable (sid) archives

[Charles Hallenbeck]

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Lorenzo,

Could you please show me the lines in your sources.list that address those sites? My first guess did not work! <smile>

Chuck

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 10:33:22AM -0500, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
> I wonder if it may be possible that mirrors.kernel.org isn't synchronizing.  I
> am following debian.hands.com and debian.secsup.org and they seem to be updating
> without any problems.
> 
> HTH,
> Lorenzo
> -- 
> When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know who have gone
> to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.
> 		-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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Re: Activity on Debian unstable (sid) archives

[Lorenzo Taylor]

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Here is the relivant excerpt from my sources.list file:

deb http://debian.hands.com/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://debian.hands.com/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.secsup.org/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://debian.secsup.org/ unstable main contrib non-free

Lorenzo
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Re: Activity on Debian unstable (sid) archives

[Charles Hallenbeck]

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Those references pulled in a lot of stuff, and my old references still just tell me "hit" on the apt-get update output 
screen. 

Thanks. Maybe mirrors.kernel.org and the merrilat site are both taking a holiday.

Chuck

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 10:58:51AM -0500, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
> Here is the relivant excerpt from my sources.list file:
> 
> deb http://debian.hands.com/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://debian.hands.com/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
> deb http://debian.secsup.org/ unstable main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://debian.secsup.org/ unstable main contrib non-free
> 
> Lorenzo
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Re: Activity on Debian unstable (sid) archives

[Justin Ekis]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 10:33:22AM -0500, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
> I wonder if it may be possible that mirrors.kernel.org isn't synchronizing.  I
> am following debian.hands.com and debian.secsup.org and they seem to be updating
> without any problems.

One useful resource I've found is the debian mirror checker. It keeps a 
list of mirrors and how recently they synchronized. There are actually 
two of these. Mirror.debian.org/status.html doesn't seem to track as 
many mirrors. It doesn't list much info on the main page but each one 
has it's own page with details. The other is www.debian.de/dmc/today/ 
which is the one I prefer. It lists more mirrors and shows the time each 
was updated right on the front page.

After checking both lists for a few days I noticed that 
debian.osuosl.org was almost always the very first one on the list. If 
it isn't on top of the list it's second or third. That's the one I'm 
currently using.

It would seem that mirrors.kernel.org hasn't been updated for a week 
which is a little hard to believe. That checks out to be correct though.

Another tip, especially if you're on a dialup connection, install the 
version of apt in experimental. When you do an apt-get update, instead 
of downloading the entire Packages and Sources files it gets small 
patches and applies these to the existing files to make them current. 
This saves a lot of time on a slow link.

HTH,
Justin

Re: Activity on Debian unstable (sid) archives

[Charles Hallenbeck]

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Justin,

Thanks for those tips. I had evidently changed the distro name from "unstable" to "sid" at some point, and changing it 
back again to "unstable" on the mirrors.kernel.org references allowed lots of info to be retrieved. So whether that was 
the real problem, or just coincidence, I can't say. But other folks showed me their links that were working, and they 
all used "unstable" instead of "sid" and were working fine.

Chuck.

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