Bug#55773: general: apt/sources.list on a per mirror basis?

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 bsb@winnegan.de wrote:

> Package: general
> Version: 20000120
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> I don't think the following is a problem with apt, but it's related to
> non-US being mirrored to different locations. Do we have a mirrors
> pseudo-package to assign this wishlist-bug to? 
> 
> I'd like to see mirrors putting a sources.list file into their /debian
> directory which a user can download and copy relevant lines into
> /etc/apt/sources.list.
> 
> Since ftp.de.debian.org currently doesn't allow anonymous ftp access,
> I replaced "de" with "nl" and "uk" respectively only to find out that
> non-US Package files could not be retrieved :(

I use ftp.jimpick.com for all my non-US needs. I don't know that he
supplies the sources.list file you are looking for, but I never have any
problems getting packages from there.

Luck,

Dwarf
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