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I ran into an interesting error the other day. It was a checksum mismatch when trying to get updates from an apt repo. The file size was also different than expected.

The error message from apt helpfully suggested that this might be because the server was in the middle of an rsync.

I tried it again and sure enough, it worked fine. It's one of those situations that I never ran into or thought of, but it makes sense in retrospect.

It makes me think about my apt repo & whether I can avoid this.

#linux #sysadmin #tech

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average_bitcoiner 11mo ago

Do you run an Ubuntu apt mirror or just a local repo for apt?

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Dr. Hax 11mo ago

Local repo. Running a local apt mirror (Debian) is on my list, but it's pretty low priority. Using the official mirrors works fine and that's a lot of disk space, even if just limiting it to x86_64.

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