[6906] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Lucid update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Tue Aug 24 23:28:45 2010
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:28:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
cc: release-team@mit.edu
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On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> Alternatively, do APT and friends play nice with HTTP 301? We could set
> up http://debathena.mit.edu/ubuntu and http://debathena.mit.edu/debian
> to redirect to the mirrors of our choice. If debathena.mit.edu is down,
> installs are pretty much useless anyway.
From apt/methods/http.cc:
/* We have a reply we dont handle. This should indicate a perm server
failure */
if (Srv->Result < 200 || Srv->Result >= 300)
{
_error->Error("%u %s",Srv->Result,Srv->Code);
if (Srv->HaveContent == true)
return 4;
return 3;
}
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
