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Re: New APT Version



On 4 Apr 1998, Gregory S. Stark wrote:

> 
> Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca> writes:
> > > I think it went into experimental.
> > Oh good!
> 
> Personally, I think wide testing is better for software projects. We have a
> lot of far less complete software in the archive, and this approach is
> precisely how linux achieved its explosive growth.

Considering the potential for harm APT has I would rather have some
testing before dumping it into unstable. It will go into unstable at
version 0.1 (we are at 0.0.3). There are still a few corners to round out.
 
> Oh I'm all for switching to HTTP. Can we convince all our mirrors to switch?

I'm going through the mirror list and building a sources.list of all the
possible sources. I have 8 sites already
 
> > Actually it is, ftp.de.debian.org is the only http enabled site I know of
> > that has the non-US archive. 
> 
> I intended to use a US archive for the main components and only use Germany
> for the non-us section.

That is how the default source list is setup, it does not fetch anything
but the two non-us package files.

Jason


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