Re: Bug#418103: cdrom: Nearly-obsolete mirror offered
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 09:45:22PM +0100, Alex Meaden wrote:
> Package: cdrom
> Severity: normal
>
> The Etch installer offers www.mirror.ac.uk as a mirror for apt. However, this mirror is due to close down in July 2007
> according to http://www.mirror.ac.uk/ -- should it therefore be removed from the list?
>
****!!* That's really annoying. Universities of Kent/Lancaster had this
taken off them a couple of years ago amid much annoyance at the time
from academics and others. Now JISC are canning the whole service.
Thankfully, the University of Kent at Canterbury carried on: they're
still operating as http://www.mirrorservice.org - which currently maintains
a full Debian mirror. I've always found them a "one stop shop" for most
things and understand the admins to be very helpful when contacted.
It's too late to change now unless we delete it altogether, since we
don't have time to contact UKC.
Unless:
http://debian.virginmedia.com/
[Telewest trading as Blueyonder used to maintain a Debian mirror and
it looks as though it's been taken on in full by Virgin Media]
In the interests of full disclosure: I am a Virgin Media customer but
haven't yet had enough experience with the new management to judge.
AndyC
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 4.0
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-k7
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>
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