[Debian-au] debian mirrors automatic compression

[Paul Wise]

The debian-mirrors list might be able to provide some more advice:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-mirrors/

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Adam Baxter <voltagex at voltagex.org> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Geoff Crompton, System Administrator
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