#651413 Double slash in wget request

Package:
choose-mirror
Source:
choose-mirror
Submitter:
"Dmitri Medvedev"
Date:
2015-08-17 23:33:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
#651413#5
Date:
2011-12-08 12:39:38 UTC
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While installing (using default graphical installator) Debian Squeeze 6.0.3
AMD64 (using debian-6.0.3-amd64-netinst.iso) on virtual machine running on
VirtualBox 4.1.6r74713 on my Windows 7 Pro working machine, I've experienced
an error in the installer while choosing a mirror: 'Bad archive mirror'. I
switched to the console 4 and noticed an error saying:

Dec 7 15:25:19 choose-mirror[30452]: DEBUG: command: wget -q
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian//dists/squeeze/Release -O - | grep -E
'^(Suite|Codename):'
Dec 7 15:25:38 choose-mirror[30452]: WARNING **: mirror does not support the
specified release (squeeze)


Notice double slash in the wget URL before dists sub-directory. That happens
for any other country as well, I've tried US, Bulgarian, Estonian, some random
mirrors as well, and error appears everywhere.

BTW, Thanks a lot for the best distro!
---
WBR,
Dmitri
#651413#10
Date:
2011-12-08 19:14:45 UTC
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Dmitri Medvedev wrote:
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?
#651413#15
Date:
2011-12-08 19:26:46 UTC
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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.
#651413#20
Date:
2011-12-08 20:06:07 UTC
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Lennart Sorensen wrote:

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.
#651413#25
Date:
2011-12-08 20:12:44 UTC
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That would certainly make it a lot less confusing.

I also keep hearing complaints about not having ping in the installer
for checking network connectivity when things aren't working. :)

But that would add a whole bunch of bytes to the installer size.
#651413#30
Date:
2015-08-17 23:24:24 UTC
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