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On 2019-06-11 11:19, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Keith Christian writes:
>> Would the maintainers (Achim?  Jon?) be willing to consider an option
>> box log errors to the setup.log file and "Skip non-fatal errors and
>> continue?"
> 
> You'd first have to teach setup to distinguish between fatal and
> non-fatal errors.  A missing package archive is always fatal as far as
> setup is concerned (how did that happen anyway?).

A mirror update failure, an unsafe mirror update process, or the latter leading
to the former.

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