There appear to be only two mirrors from which I can download core 90 testing, and the download fails. It is probably due to my (substandard) ISP (HughesNot), but I wonder if it would succeed if there were a closer mirror to me (USA)?
Failing that, perhaps a tweak to pakfire (enabling more or better download retries) is in order?
Thanks! Paul
Paul,
It may not be your network connection. I have a mirror (mirror.smartappliances.us/ipfire, if I remember right). As of right now, it was still updating from the main IPFire server. It just takes a while to get all the new pieces. So, it is possible you were using a mirror that is not fully updated yet. I do bandwidth limit the sync to keep from killing my server and the main one.
That being said, I updated my test router a couple of hours ago. Sorry, I did not see which mirrors it used. I believe the update looks for the least busy, but I know it doesn't look for the closest as a couple of routers on the same subnet as my mirror have, in the past, used European mirrors.
Unless it is your network connection, it may just be that the mirrors you have been assigned are still updating. So, if you network connection is good, you might just try again.
NOTE: It appears from the logs that my mirror is working on the armv5tel, so I believe that means the i386 is completely downloaded.
Rod
On 05/09/2015 09:21 AM, Paul Simmons wrote:
There appear to be only two mirrors from which I can download core 90 testing, and the download fails. It is probably due to my (substandard) ISP (HughesNot), but I wonder if it would succeed if there were a closer mirror to me (USA)?
Failing that, perhaps a tweak to pakfire (enabling more or better download retries) is in order?
Thanks! Paul
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Hello Paul,
can you tell us what exact error you get?
We have multiple mirror servers but only use two for the testing releases because mirror syncing is an issue which takes sometimes a long time.
All the mirrors are OK right now: http://mirrors.ipfire.org/
Pakfire should try each mirror once. If all fail, pakfire will use the master mirror.
-Michael
On Sat, 2015-05-09 at 09:21 -0500, Paul Simmons wrote:
There appear to be only two mirrors from which I can download core 90 testing, and the download fails. It is probably due to my (substandard) ISP (HughesNot), but I wonder if it would succeed if there were a closer mirror to me (USA)?
Failing that, perhaps a tweak to pakfire (enabling more or better download retries) is in order?
Thanks! Paul
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On Sun, 2015-05-10 at 10:08 +0200, Michael Tremer wrote:
Hello Paul,
can you tell us what exact error you get?
We have multiple mirror servers but only use two for the testing releases because mirror syncing is an issue which takes sometimes a long time.
All the mirrors are OK right now: http://mirrors.ipfire.org/
Pakfire should try each mirror once. If all fail, pakfire will use the master mirror.
-Michael
Thanks for your quick reply, Michael.
I enclose an excerpt from the terminal session, and one from the system log.
After some experimentation, I was able to use "wget" to copy the needed paks from mirror.lightningwirelabs.com/pub/*blah* to /var/cache/pakfire/ on the firewall and invoke the upgrade.
I am willing to continue using that method, because I understand the constraints on mirroring. As I said, I believe the root cause is the inadequacy of my ISP, but I have no other service available :-( . That is the downside of "life in the boonies".
Best regards, Paul
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