[tech] Local debian mirrors (was Re: [wheel] webcam user not in NIS and general mussel stuff)

[Grahame Bowland]

On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:20:59PM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 11:15:51AM +0800, James Andrewartha wrote:
> [...]
> > As for incomplete setups, mussel is supposed to be running woody but the
> > UWA and IT mirrors were fscked (specifically the Packages files) when we
> > set it up, so it's not very happy.
> 
> Seems fine now... sure it wasn't in the middle of an update...?
> 
> Unfortunately, neither of our closest mirrors have been perfect.
> 
> UWA is deliberate partial mirror (source+i386+alpha only), but its
> upstream mirror.aarnet.edu.au had space problems and was missing files.
> This is now remedied. UWA moved to IT as an upstream temporarily - I
> think it's back to mirror.aarnet.edu.au .  Unfortunately, now it looks
> like ftp.uwa.edu.au is out of space (
> ftp.uwa.edu.au:/usr/local/ftp/mirrors/linux
>                       17660720  16800600         0 100% /linux
> ), though that may be fixed soon.

ftp.uwa.edu.au still syncs from ftp.it.net.au. The space problems have 
been due to Debian really messing up (TM) and buggering the move into 
pools somehow so that the mirror takes (literally) a couple of gigabytes 
more, even with the new architectures filtered out.

I'll delete some more packages, and maybe shift back to mirror.aarnet.

- Grahame