fai-mirror fails creating a usable mirror

[Henning Sprang]

Package: fai-server
Version: 3.2.7


Henning Sprang wrote:
> Running fai-mirror I get this:
> 
> install:~# fai-mirror /var/fai-mirror/
> Using configuration files from /etc/fai
> Getting package information
> bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
> bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
> Failed to fetch 
> http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download/dists/etch/koeln/binary-i386/Packages.bz2  
> Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2)
> Failed to fetch 
> http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download/dists/etch/koeln/binary-i386/Packages.bz2  
> Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2)
> ...
> 
> Somethings broken here. Wil report if the packages are there anyway - at 
> least it looks fearsome to the attention-paying admin :)

In the end, fai-mirror finishes like this,

...
Adding packages from base.tgz.
bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
Failed to fetch 
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download/dists/etch/koeln/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 
  Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2)
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old 
ones used instead.

and the mirror doesn't contain anything but the aptcache directory 
(which looks, at a first glance, like it perfectly contains all needed 
packages!), being unusable for creating a fai-cd:

install:~# fai-cd -m /var/fai-mirror/ fai-cd-dhd_0.1.iso
Bind mounting all required parts
NFSROOT /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir mounted
Config space /etc/fai-local/config mounted
Mirror /var/fai-mirror/ mounted
ERROR: No suitable Packages file found in mirror.




forwarding to BTS...

Henning