APT mess when selecting Anycast Worldwide repo

[zorzi]

Hello,

When I select "anycast worldwide" repo, I get some annoyances:

First, via the terminal:

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$ sudo apt update
[sudo] Mot de passe de : 
Atteint:1 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease
Réception de:2 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates InRelease [94,3 kB]                      
Atteint:3 http://www.deb-multimedia.org stable InRelease                                           
Ign:4 http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable InRelease                                          
Ign:5 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease                                            
Atteint:6 http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable Release                                        
Atteint:7 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian stretch Release                                          
Réception de:8 https://mirrors.evowise.com/mxlinux-packages/antix/stretch stretch InRelease [27,4 kB]
Réception de:9 https://mirrors.evowise.com/mxlinux-packages/mx/repo stretch InRelease [8 136 B]
Atteint:10 https://repo.skype.com/deb stable InRelease         
Réception de:13 https://mirrors.evowise.com/mxlinux-packages/antix/stretch stretch/main amd64 Packages [186 kB]
Réception de:14 https://mirrors.evowise.com/mxlinux-packages/antix/stretch stretch/main i386 Packages [193 kB]
Réception de:15 https://mirrors.evowise.com/mxlinux-packages/mx/repo stretch/main amd64 Packages [487 kB]
Err:15 https://mirrors.evowise.com/mxlinux-packages/mx/repo stretch/main amd64 Packages
  Writing more data than expected (488167 > 486964)
  Hashes of expected file:
   - Filesize:486964 [weak]
   - SHA256:faa72ebfd1c61be1fdf3c47d48f8108079d4d135586c39cf14eb3d48f8efd21e
   - SHA1:20876e81322b30fd7813d4be9699a585dc418540 [weak]
   - MD5Sum:b49583036ccd3b152268d5e6b710fb86 [weak]
  Release file created at: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 03:38:43 +0000
Réception de:16 https://mirrors.evowise.com/mxlinux-packages/mx/repo stretch/main i386 Packages [486 kB]
Err:16 https://mirrors.evowise.com/mxlinux-packages/mx/repo stretch/main i386 Packages
  
Réception de:17 https://mirrors.evowise.com/mxlinux-packages/mx/repo stretch/non-free i386 Packages [58,1 kB]
Réception de:18 https://mirrors.evowise.com/mxlinux-packages/mx/repo stretch/non-free amd64 Packages [56,3 kB]
Err:18 https://mirrors.evowise.com/mxlinux-packages/mx/repo stretch/non-free amd64 Packages
  
622 ko réceptionnés en 4s (142 ko/s)
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
E: Impossible de récupérer https://mirrors.evowise.com/mxlinux-packages/mx/repo/dists/stretch/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz  Writing more data than expected (488167 > 486964)
   Hashes of expected file:
    - Filesize:486964 [weak]
    - SHA256:faa72ebfd1c61be1fdf3c47d48f8108079d4d135586c39cf14eb3d48f8efd21e
    - SHA1:20876e81322b30fd7813d4be9699a585dc418540 [weak]
    - MD5Sum:b49583036ccd3b152268d5e6b710fb86 [weak]
   Release file created at: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 03:38:43 +0000
E: Impossible de récupérer https://mirrors.evowise.com/mxlinux-packages/mx/repo/dists/stretch/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz  
E: Impossible de récupérer https://mirrors.evowise.com/mxlinux-packages/mx/repo/dists/stretch/non-free/binary-amd64/Packages.gz  
E: Le téléchargement de quelques fichiers d'index a échoué, ils ont été ignorés, ou les anciens ont été utilisés à la place.

Second, though I pinned it to 100, deb multimedia packages fall and take priority over regular updates (see picture):

[Adrian]

I've seen it today, you can either wait till the resync will solve the issue or you could select another mirror and do a refresh.

[cyrilus31]

I've seen it today, you can either wait till the resync will solve the issue or you could select another mirror and do a refresh.

I got this problem for many days. I finally selected manually the mirror.

[timkb4cq]

mirrors.evowise.com does have an invalid Release file. I wouldn't use that mirror until they update again. That one is in Romania. The mirrors.pidginhost.com repo in Romania doesn't have the problem.

[anticapitalista]

Have a look here at mirror status - (antiX and MX repos)

https://antixlinux.com/mirmon-packages/

[zorzi]

Ok. Thanks to everyone for answering. I'll stick to my country mirrors for now.

[Stevo]

Deb-multimedia doesn't use that mirror system, as far as I know.

Its agressive upgrades may be due to the use of epochs, but I'm not really sure. We don't recommend it using it, especially not leaving it enabled at all times.

[zorzi]

Deb-multimedia doesn't use that mirror system, as far as I know.

Its agressive upgrades may be due to the use of epochs, but I'm not really sure. We don't recommend it using it, especially not leaving it enabled at all times.

Understood. Thanks, Stevo.

[aledie]

This Anycast mirror seems a bit instable or say at least delayed with updates. Maybe this is due to this "anycast" thing...
By the way it isn't just Romania, I understand the main address mirrors.evowise.com is in Romania, but it forwards the requests to one of their other mirrors based on request location. I could identify at least, which I guess can also be used durectly instead of the main url (without prefix) and may have a different update state:
uk-mirrors.evowise.com
ro-mirrors.evowise.com
es-mirrors.evowise.com
it-mirrors.evowise.com
ny-mirrors.evowise.com
la-mirrors.evowise.com