On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 11:11:04PM +1000, onefang wrote:

> On 2022-07-16 08:21:13, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > I tried installing sharutils using aptitude, and was unable to.
> > aptitude told me:
> >     Temporary failure resolving 'deb.devuan.org'
> > and later:
> >     E: Failed to fetch
> >        http://deb.devuan.org/merged/pool/DEBIAN/main/s/sharutils/sharutils_4.15.2
> >        -5_amd64.deb: Temporary failure resolving 'deb.devuan.org'

> >
> > In the browser, I had no problem at all reaching http://deb.devuan.org
> > but http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ did not contain pool:
> >
> > Index of /merged
> >

> > Name                    Last modified      Size  
> > Parent Directory                             -   
> > dists/                  2022-05-14 11:06    -   

> >
> > What gives?
>
> Your first problem might just be whatever name server you use, it might
> have been having problems when you tried aptitude, but not when you tried
> a browser. I recently switched to using unbound for the first time, and
> I get that several times a day now.
>
> deb.devuan.org is a DNS round robin, it'll hand out a different IP from
> our collection of package mirrors. So the first thing you should do when
> telling us about problems with it is which IP you got out of it at the
> time.

Unfortunately, neither aptitude nor firefox told me the IP number they
were using.
Maybe it would be useful if aptitude would do that on this kind of error.

-- hendrik
>
> Also note the /DEBIAN/ part, most package mirrors rewrite URLs like that
> to point to Debians package mirrors. So there might be some URL
> rewriting and redirection going on.
>
> If you can tell me which IP it was, then I can investigate further.

What I did do when it happened was to use the browser
to go to debian's package pool, download the same verion of the same package,
and install it directly using dpkg.

I figured uudecode (the command I was looking for) wouldn't need to be changed for devuan. And it wasn't in a tangle of dependencies, so in this instance, it worked.

-- hendrik

>
> I wrote apt-panopticon to monitor and test lots of things about our
> package mirrors, useful for the first place to look. Though I admit it's
> still a little buggy.
>
> https://sledjhamr.org/apt-panopticon/results/Report-web.html
> http://veritas.devuan.org/apt-panopticon/results/Report-web.html
> https://borta.devuan.dev/apt-panopticon/results/Report-web.html
>
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