Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 03:14:45PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > I see a doubled slash, but no indication it has anything to do with the > > problem you experienced. > > > > joey@wren:~> wget -q http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian//dists/squeeze/Release -O - | grep -E '^(Suite|Codename):' > > Suite: stable > > Codename: squeeze > > > > Do you have a broken proxy, or something else that makes // not work? > > Do you have any reason to think this was not just a transient network problem? > > I saw this recently too when a machine in fact did not have a working network link. > > Too bad the error couldn't be "Network connection failed" rather than > "invalid release on mirror". > > I guess since grep is what gives a return code there isn't any easy to > way to know what wget thought of the request. This could be fixed by running wget, checking its exit status, and displaying a network error message, and only then parsing the Release file (probably in C code) and displaying the current message. -- see shy jo
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