Bug #15459
closedapt-mirror does not have its mind right
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Description
Greg and I pinned down a "Hash sum mismatch" failure on Friday to an internally-inconsistent local repo. The checksums did not match the files.
I am not convinced that the tool we're using is the right tool. "caching proxy" has been brought up in the past, which is a bigger change, and maybe makes sense; in the meanwhile, though, there are lots of mirroring tools noted here: https://wiki.debian.org/HowToSetupADebianRepository#Debian_Repository_Mirroring_Tools and I think we should deploy one of those.
Updated by Dan Mick about 8 years ago
- Subject changed from apt-mirror is not behaving right to apt-mirror does not have its mind right
Updated by Loïc Dachary about 8 years ago
FWIW I've been hit by the the "Hash checksum" problem on the canonical repositories (not mirrors) multiple times in the past few days.
Updated by Dan Mick about 8 years ago
Zack suggests it's in the upstream too. If that's the case, maybe we should 1) push on the upstream to figure out why they're broken, and 2) add something to the mirroring process to validate the local mirror and alert on it, or try a resync, or both
Updated by Loïc Dachary about 8 years ago
For the record:
<loicd> jamespage: hi. Is there a known workaround for when Ubuntu mirrors exhibit "Hash checksum" problems ? <jamespage> loicd, hmm - well I thought that to be a thing of the past today - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/no-more-hash-sum-mismatch-errors.html <jamespage> loicd, you're just seeing some churn in the xenial archive as we go towards release; but it reveals an underlying issues...