yakkety in http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu is broken

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This is a known issue, the removal of yakkety from archive.ubuntu.com was done somewhat overzealously early, leading to us needing to recover the bits from elsewhere, but it's in progress.

We are very interested in this case to be solved

Are there any progress? Or this bug is dropped as related to non-supported Ubuntu version?

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This has already been fixed. The indicated bootstrap command succeeds today.

Hello,

yes, can confirm, that this particular use case for old distribution yakkety is fixed.
But there are still missing packages. Do I need create new bug report or continue/reopen here?

Which packages in particular appear missing?

Doing

  apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

Missing 9 of 38 files.

....

Get:36 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety-updates/main amd64 openssh-sftp-server amd64 1:7.3p1-1ubuntu0.1 [39.7 kB]
Get:37 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety-updates/main amd64 openssh-server amd64 1:7.3p1-1ubuntu0.1 [341 kB]
Get:38 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety-updates/main amd64 openssh-client amd64 1:7.3p1-1ubuntu0.1 [594 kB]
Fetched 16.9 MB in 2s (6908 kB/s)
E: Failed to fetch http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/util-linux/bsdutils_2.28.2-1ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/util-linux/util-linux_2.28.2-1ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/util-linux/mount_2.28.2-1ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.8.dfsg-2ubuntu5.1_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/util-linux/libuuid1_2.28.2-1ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/util-linux/libblkid1_2.28.2-1ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/util-linux/libmount1_2.28.2-1ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/util-linux/libfdisk1_2.28.2-1ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/util-linux/libsmartcols1_2.28.2-1ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb 404 Not Found

I guess some other packages are missing. I can check whole yakkety and report all missing files.
Would that be helpful/needed?

Looks like these are all yakkety-updates rather than yakkety-updates release, which may explain why they were missed.

It makes OS unusable. And need to know if Ubuntu 16.10 (32/64 bit) is fully dropped and this case will not be solved.

> And need to know if Ubuntu 16.10 (32/64 bit) is fully dropped

Aside from the part where the mirror on old-releases is missing files and needs fixing (it is, and it is, and it will be), the fact that it is *on* old releases means it's end of life, which is how I would read "fully dropped". There's no support for yakkety, you really, really shouldn't be using it, except for some curious academic historical research purposes because you're writing a paper on what the world looked like back in 2016, and if you *are* using it for such a purpose, do be sure to use it behind a very strict firewall.

There seems to be an additional issue, reported as https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/669100

Some yakkety-related packages on old-releases.ubuntu.com seem to have wrong protection settings.

An attempt to download http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/util-linux/fdisk-udeb_2.28.2-1ubuntu1.2_amd64.udeb gives

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /ubuntu/pool/main/u/util-linux/fdisk-udeb_2.28.2-1ubuntu1.2_amd64.udeb on this server.

Guys please update, we are stuck with angry customers :-/

This should now be completely fixed.

Note that old-releases is not officially supported -- and if you have customers complaining about it, your customers also probably have unfixed remote root exploits.

We have tested both 16.10 64bit and 16.10 32bit Yakkety and can confirm the problem is solved.

Thank you guys, great job!

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