Backports in sources.list

[daenney]

Hey
I'm new to the whole bacport idea but I find it really amazing what you people do...
I added the backports from ubuntuguide.org to my apt sources but it can't find anything, basically, u get an error.
I surfed around a bit and I assume it's because the backport takes up so much bandwith that the mirrors are down or have the mirror address been updated?

[lao_V]

what sort of error are you getting and what's in your sources.list?

[Dax0r]

I get this error:

Err http://backports.ubuntuforums.org hoary-backports/main Packages
500 Internal Server Error
Err http://backports.ubuntuforums.org hoary-backports/universe Packages
500 Internal Server Error
Err http://backports.ubuntuforums.org hoary-backports/multiverse Packages
500 Internal Server Error
Err http://backports.ubuntuforums.org hoary-backports/restricted Packages
500 Internal Server Error
Err http://backports.ubuntuforums.org hoary-extras/main Packages
500 Internal Server Error
Err http://backports.ubuntuforums.org hoary-extras/universe Packages
500 Internal Server Error
Err http://backports.ubuntuforums.org hoary-extras/multiverse Packages
500 Internal Server Error
Err http://backports.ubuntuforums.org hoary-extras/restricted Packages
500 Internal Server Error

[jdong]

Sorry, repository is down. I have a backup access location at : "http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/ubp/"


It may be a bit less up-to-date, but at least it works!

[XDevHald]

I get this error:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=174215#post174215

The link above will give you some info on this, and yes the backports are down at the moment, they were up yesterday.

[artAlexion]

I did not get any errors regarding the servers, but apt-get upgrade didn't. (e.g. firefox did not upgrade)

Is there a special order for the respositories in my sources.list?

[XDevHald]

Hmm, try doing it from the Update Package Manager but hit Refresh after it's done initializing. That will grab all of the new udates/upgrades from the backports.

[artAlexion]

Hmm, try doing it from the Update Package Manager but hit Refresh after it's done initializing. That will grab all of the new udates/upgrades from the backports.

No Update Package Manager in Warty (that I know of) Sorry, I should have mentioned that I am using Warty, still.

[daenney]

I had the same errors as DaXor

Apparently the backports are back up again but I do get this in apt:

Ign http://backports.ubuntuforums.org hoary-backports Release.gpg
Ign http://backports.ubuntuforums.org hoary-extras Release.gpg

What does the Ign mean? Ignoring or something else?

[jdong]

Ign means "Ignored". I do not GPG-sign my packages, so they don't have a Release.gpg file. It's normal.

[ubuntu-geek]

We now have a new mirror that will improve the speeds and hopefully take over some of the main site's bandwidth issues :) Check here:

http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/url.php