Oh well. There seems to be a new mirror system available for Debian — http.debian.net — and it sucks the second time I used it :-(
I was able to boot Debian Wheezy on my MK802+ (courtesy of the nice work Roman did), but installing “vim” failed miserably:
root@debian:~# apt-get install vim Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libgpm2 vim-common vim-runtime Suggested packages: gpm ctags vim-doc vim-scripts The following NEW packages will be installed: libgpm2 vim vim-common vim-runtime 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 5,501 kB of archives. After this operation, 24.5 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy/main libgpm2 armhf 1.20.4-6 [34.0 kB] Get:2 http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy/main vim-runtime all 2:7.3.547-7 [4,607 kB] Get:3 http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy/main vim-common armhf 2:7.3.547-7 [162 kB] Err http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy/main vim armhf 2:7.3.547-7 404 Not Found Fetched 4,803 kB in 3s (1,473 kB/s) Failed to fetch http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/v/vim/vim_7.3.547-7_armhf.deb 404 Not Found E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
Yeah, sure. Well, armhf is now a supported architecture, and like the Raspberry Pi, the MK802-series of USB stick size Android devices uses this architecture. They seem to be really lovely tiny little powerhorses, even though speed is not everything — well, price matters, too, and as of this writing, you can get one of these thingies at 39,90 EUR including P&P via amazon.de. Add a micro SD card, and you get a full blown Linux system:
root@debian:~# uname -a Linux debian 3.4.29-20130407.1341-rm1+ #34 Sun Apr 7 19:56:56 YEKT 2013 armv7l GNU/Linux root@debian:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 2 (v7l) BogoMIPS : 1006.38 Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp thumbee neon vfpv3 tls CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 7 CPU variant : 0x3 CPU part : 0xc08 CPU revision : 2 Hardware : sun4i Revision : 0000 Serial : 0000000000000000
Compared to one of my Raspberry Pis, the MK802+ above looks more powerful:
root@igor:~# uname -a Linux igor 3.2.27+ #250 PREEMPT Thu Oct 18 19:03:02 BST 2012 armv6l GNU/Linux root@igor:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo Processor : ARMv6-compatible processor rev 7 (v6l) BogoMIPS : 697.95 Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp java tls CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 7 CPU variant : 0x0 CPU part : 0xb76 CPU revision : 7 Hardware : BCM2708 Revision : 000e Serial : 000000001dxxxxxx
Anyway. I have a special use case for mine in mind, so I needed the apt stuff working. To cut a long story short:
root@debian:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main root@debian:~# sed -i -e 's%http://http.debian.net%http://ftp.de.debian.org%g' /etc/apt/sources.list root@debian:~# apt-get update Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org wheezy Release.gpg [836 B] Get:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org wheezy Release [240 kB] Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org wheezy/main armhf Packages [5,693 kB] Get:4 http://ftp.de.debian.org wheezy/main Translation-en [3,854 kB] Fetched 9,788 kB in 37s (258 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done root@debian:~# apt-get install vim Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libgpm2 vim-common vim-runtime Suggested packages: gpm ctags vim-doc vim-scripts The following NEW packages will be installed: libgpm2 vim vim-common vim-runtime 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded. Need to get 697 kB/5,501 kB of archives. After this operation, 24.5 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main vim armhf 2:7.3.547-7 [697 kB] Fetched 697 kB in 1s (675 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package libgpm2:armhf. (Reading database ... 17567 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libgpm2:armhf (from .../libgpm2_1.20.4-6_armhf.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package vim-common. Unpacking vim-common (from .../vim-common_2%3a7.3.547-7_armhf.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package vim-runtime. Unpacking vim-runtime (from .../vim-runtime_2%3a7.3.547-7_all.deb) ... Adding 'diversion of /usr/share/vim/vim73/doc/help.txt to /usr/share/vim/vim73/doc/help.txt.vim-tiny by vim-runtime' Adding 'diversion of /usr/share/vim/vim73/doc/tags to /usr/share/vim/vim73/doc/tags.vim-tiny by vim-runtime' Selecting previously unselected package vim. Unpacking vim (from .../vim_2%3a7.3.547-7_armhf.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up libgpm2:armhf (1.20.4-6) ... Setting up vim-common (2:7.3.547-7) ... Setting up vim-runtime (2:7.3.547-7) ... Processing /usr/share/vim/addons/doc Setting up vim (2:7.3.547-7) ... update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/vim.basic to provide /usr/bin/vim (vim) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/vim.basic to provide /usr/bin/vimdiff (vimdiff) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/vim.basic to provide /usr/bin/rvim (rvim) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/vim.basic to provide /usr/bin/rview (rview) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/vim.basic to provide /usr/bin/vi (vi) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/vim.basic to provide /usr/bin/view (view) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/vim.basic to provide /usr/bin/ex (ex) in auto mode
tl;dr: Just stay away from debian.net mirroring system, it’s not yet working …
If you can still reproduce the problem, could you please check what mirror you are being redirected to for the failed request?
Millions of requests are handled every week without a problem. I’d like to identify and find a solution to those that do cause problems.
Thanks in advance.
I *think* it was an UK mirror, but I’m now 300 km away from the box where I checked the link (and got no armhf binaries), so, sorry, no. On the first error nowadays I’ll do a “sed -i -e ‘s%http://http.debian.net%http://ftp.de.debian.org%g’ /etc/apt/sources.list” as this ‘just works’ for me for now. I do appreciate the idea behind http.debian.net — but as soon as it’s bugging me, I’ll just opt out.