thank you

Fungal-net:
> It could that going back may not be giving you a 404 error but you may
> have the incorrect
> repository.
> Based on advise passed yesterday by fsmithred on Dev1.galaxy forum I
> compiled a complete list of repositories as found on pkgmanager. 
> According to fsmithred those that are both on devuan and merged should
> be on merged.  Those that are only on devuan and not merged should only
> be on devuan.
>
> So the complete list to pick from (some are optional repositories) is this:
>

ill see how that goes

i missed that, might need to sign up to announce

are the pkgmaster repos you listed the same as the original auto mirror
repos which i was originally on ?

after changing to pkgmaster jessie main contrib non-free:

W: Size of file
/var/cache/apt/archives/partial/tzdata-java_2017c-0+deb8u1_all.deb is
not what the server reported 82130 49152
W: Size of file
/var/cache/apt/archives/partial/tzdata_2017c-0+deb8u1_all.deb is not
what the server reported 231576 157075