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著者: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
題目: Re: [DNG] About the issues on the devuan repositories
On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 06:54:44AM +0200, Franco Lanza wrote:
> Hi all,
> after the last days issues with devuan repositories,
> i have deeply investigated what broke our amprolla merged repo.
>
> First issue: debian mirror auto geolocation
>
> Until some days ago we were using http://http.debian.net as auto
> geolocation redirect for debian mirrors to be merged. Sadly those were
> having issues, and then i've changed it pointing to the OVH mirror, and
> then to the httpredir.debian.org mirrors.
>
> They seems to work, but amprolla wasn't yet able to work as expected,
> so, tonight i have deeply investigated our issue... and i discovered a
> change in the debian mirror structure.
>
> They were used to have both an InRelease file AND a Release ( with
> Release.gpg ) as main indices for repositories.
>
> Amprolla was ignoring Release and Release.gpg files, and it was using
> exclusively InRelease file, as it was signed and downloading 1 file
> instead of 2 is more efficient.
>
> Apparently something is changed in debian, and now debian mirrors
> doesn't have InRelease anymore, they instead have only Release and
> Release.gpg files.
>
> For this reason, amprolla was assuming the debian repos were empty, and
> then it was mergin the devuan repos with "nothing".
>
> I've just patched amprolla with a work around to solve this issue,
> anyway, as the debian repos aren't so stable in structure as i was
> expecting, a major rewrite of amprolla will be rescheduled to be
> anticipate, and it will perform a full mirror instead of using only
> redirects.
>
> This would say more bandwidth and disk space for us, but at least we can
> be sure to not be affected from debian changes like in those days.


At least, not to be shut down by the changes; amprolla might stll need
to be changed if the Debian repository structure changes in order to
get the most recent packages.

I wonder how other Debian derivatives handle this?

-- hendrik

>
> Thanks for your patience, in few hours the devuan repositories will be
> up&running.
> --
>
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