[Debian-au] debian mirrors automatic compression

[Geoff Crompton]

On 18/11/14 13:29, Adam Baxter wrote:
> I'd also recommend ccing mirror at aarnet.edu.au
> <mailto:mirror at aarnet.edu.au> although I'm not sure how often that inbox
> is checked

I've sent mirror at aarnet.edu.au a separate email, saying essentially the 
same thing. I'll let this list know if I get a response from them.

>
> On 18 Nov 2014 1:15 pm, "Geoff Crompton" <geoffc at trinity.unimelb.edu.au
> <mailto: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
>     <http://ftp.au.debian.org> is behaving just
>     like mirror.aarnet.edu.au <http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au>, but
>     ftp.nz.debian.org <http://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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