[pkg-lxc-devel] Bug#835530: Bug#835530: lxc: Repository used in Debian template doesn't work.

[Evgeni Golov]

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 06:44:34PM +0200, Dryden Personalis wrote:

> I am not sure if any newer version from testing unstable would have solved this,

No, the version in Stretch also uses httpredir.debian.org, which is the same as http.debian.net.

> But the mirror found in /usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-debian:
> 
> http://http.debian.net/debian
> 
> Does not actually work for installing the base minimal system with debootstrap.

httpredir.debian.org/http.debian.net is just a redirector.
I don't fully know how it decides which mirror to redirect you to, but those are the source of your issue.
http://http.debian.net/demo.html tells you which mirror it tries to redirect you to.
I think the maintainer of http.debian.net will love to know which mirrors are defective.

> It will simply fail to find many files. Upon removing the mirror from the file, the problem is fixed.

Then debootstrap uses ftp.debian.org. Yeah.

http.debian.net has worked quite fine as a default, and I think just using ftp.d.o will not be good for many users.

Regards
Evgeni