On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 12:41:29PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Robert Holtzman wrote:
> > I must be more of a noob than I thought. "Follow the points"...what
> > points? If you mean the debian.org and wiki URLs, they just point to the
> > kernel.org site(s), dead end.
> >
> > "If you are using squeeze, better change that URI".....what one?
> >
> > Running a search on "squeeze repositories list" yielded nothing useful.
>
> Since you are in the US you can use the US mirrors. For a complete
> list of mirrors see this reference:
>
> http://www.debian.org/mirror/list
That's the one I was looking for. Don't know why the search didn't show
it up. Maybe I went right by it and it didn't register.
>
> But to keep things simple let me propose these complete examples:
>
> For Squeeze:
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze-updates main
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze-updates main
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
That's pretty much what I've got with the addition of
"mirrors.kernel.org/debian" which, of course is dead. Commenting this
one out stops "apt-get update" from stalling.
>
..........snip.........
>
> The ftp.us.debian.org name is a list of round robin US mirrors. They
> are all sites that have full mirrors but all different independent
> sites. It has previously included kernel.org but not at this time
> while that site is down.
With it down there is no way to get kernel updates unless the
independent sites carry them, but where would they get them if not the
kernel.org servers?
> Being a dynamic system the mirror admins
> keep that name updated with the current list of good working mirrors.
> If a mirror has problems it is quickly removed from the round robin
> list. Sometimes you might experience a transient glitch from a single
> mirror. Running 'update' again will round robin again and possibly
> get a different mirror (or possibly the same) and avoid the problem
> (or not). Try again if not. Usually transient problems are either
> cleared quickly or the name is dropped from the dns record in a few
> hours. And remember that Stable is stable but Sid is very unstable.
>
> For Testing Wheezy there is no "-updates" section at this time. The
> rationale being that Testing will get updates from Unstable very
> quickly and doesn't need a "-updates" similarly to not having needed
> "volatile" previously.
>
> You can see this from a practical perspective by browsing the
> repository, observing the available sections, but noting that
> squeeze-updates exists but wheezy-updates is not there.
>
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/
>
> Hope that helps!
Sure does. Thanks.
--
Bob Holtzman
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