[Debian-uk] Did the UK mirror (ftp.uk.debian.org) go backwards yesterday?

[Roger Leigh]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 02:56:01PM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:25:48AM +0000, Simon Waters said:
> > Couple of lenny boxes offered me grub upgrade lenny1->lenny2
> >=20
> > When asked to upgrade, they needed an "update" before it would work.
> >=20
> > I assume that the md5sum errors some servers reported mean that the UK =
mirror=20
> > had an issue and went back to listing grub lenny1 as current sometime=
=20
> > yesterday, and that it has now caught up again?!
> >=20
> >  Simon, who probably ought to check his proxy server settings to make s=
ure=20
> > they are caching the updates better.
>=20
> ftp-master busted the md5sum's yesterday:
> http://blog.ganneff.de/blog/2009/01/22/bugs-bugs-bugs-and-a-nice-spee.html
>=20
> I wouldn't be surprised if that confused whole loads of software that
> expects the archive to work.

For me, it downloaded all the pdiffs, then tried to update nearly 400 MiB
of packages with their experimental versions.  A second update retrieved
the whole Packages file, and it now seems to be almost sane again.
While apt-get worked reasonably, aptitude upgrade went into a
"Resolving dependencies..." infinite loop and needed to be killed.


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