[plug] Debian Sarge AMD64 Update Problem

[Daniel Pearson (Flashware Solutions)]

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Lance Duivenbode wrote:
> Hmm, added the line you specified and commented out the pacnet one. No 
> difference - I still get a 404. Strange thing is that I can see the files, 
> and download them (for example 
> http://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian-amd64/debian-amd64/dists/sarge/main/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2).
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Lance
>
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 11:04 am, Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:
>   
>> On 3/9/07, Lance Duivenbode <plug at duivenbode.id.au> wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I received an email this morning from one of my work servers with the
>>> results
>>> of it's overnight APT update attempt. Within the text of the report, it
>>> appears that I'm getting 404 messages from the mirror I've chosen
>>> (mirror.pacific.net.au). I've tried changing the mirror, but all the
>>> other sites I've tried (including ftp.debian.org) have the same problem.
>>> Have I missed something?
>>>
>>> I've included the emailed text and my sources.list for your perusal. Any
>>> suggestions would be most welcome!
>>>
>>> Lance
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------
>>> /etc/apt/sources.list
>>> ----------------------------------
>>> deb http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/debian-amd64/debian/ sarge main
>>> contrib
>>> deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib
>>> deb http://www.backports.org/debian sarge-backports main contrib
>>>
>>> Looks like pacnet is borked to me.
>>>       
>> You could always add
>> deb http://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian-amd64/ sarge main contrib
>> non-free and you'll failover to that one if you put it in second place if
>> there's something wrong with the first. On that point, you may want to put
>> the main US servers on third position and if all else fails get it from
>> there.
>>
>> Tomasz
>>     
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