Toward a robust package installation ?...

[Chad C. Walstrom]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 05:16:47PM +0100, Ronan KERYELL wrote:
> Package j2sdk1.3 has no available version, but exists in the database.
> This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency
> and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the
> contents of sources.list

If you're using metalab.unc.edu's mirror of blackdown.org's debian
packages, I did see a mass removal of files not too long ago -- sometime
last week.  It does look like everything is back up and running
correctly.

We use the mirror package to mirror debian-non-US and the metalab site.
For the debian site, we've got a campus backbone connection to
debian-mirror.cs.umn.edu.  mmm... 300+ MB/s...

We have the mirror so we can use NFS to push out packages via apt.  This
saves two steps, the download (network) and storage (harddrive) of
*.deb's, and greatly increases the speed of installation.

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