[Debian-au] debian mirrors automatic compression

[Adam Baxter]

I'd also recommend ccing mirror at aarnet.edu.au although I'm not sure how
often that inbox is checked
On 18 Nov 2014 1:15 pm, "Geoff Crompton" <geoffc at trinity.unimelb.edu.au>
wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> We use the aarnet mirror for debian packages. I've noticed today the
> installation of a VM isn't working.
>
> I think it may be because when I download
>
> http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian/dists/wheezy/main/i18n/Translation-en
> ,
> I get a bz2 compressed file instead. I've also noticed that at
> http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian/dists/wheezy/main/i18n/ the
> uncompressed file isn't listed.
>
> I don't think the Debian installer expects that (or at least the debian
> installed I'm using, on the iso I uploaded to my virtualisation
> environment many months ago). The
> http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian/dists/wheezy/Release file
> suggests I should be able to download either main/i18n/Translation-en or
> main/i18n/Translation-en.bz2.
>
> I suspect if the main/i18n/Translation-en download failed, the installer
> would then try the bz2 download, and it might proceed.
>
> Does anyone have any comments on this?
>
> As a point of reference, it seems ftp.au.debian.org is behaving just
> like mirror.aarnet.edu.au, but ftp.nz.debian.org is returning a 404 on
> http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/i18n/Translation-en.
>
> --
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