On 1/13/19 4:42 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi! On 1/13/19 10:25 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:I will give that a try right away. What lines should one have in the /etc/apt/sources.list to make life somewhat easy ? I have had some difficulties with local university mirror sites mostly because the architecture simply doesn't exist there.Yes, you need to use a Debian Ports mirror. You can use this sources.list:https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/sources.listPorts is not mirrored on every Debian mirror.
I certainly found that to be true. Trying to locate a mirror and I see : ~ # tail /var/log/syslog Jan 13 21:44:29 anna-install: Installing apt-mirror-setupJan 13 21:45:12 choose-mirror[4695]: DEBUG: command: wget --no-verbose http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/dists/testing/Release -O - | grep -E '^(Suite|Codename|Architectures):' Jan 13 21:45:12 choose-mirror[4695]: WARNING **: mirror does not support the specified release (testing) Jan 13 21:46:08 main-menu[4593]: (process:4682): http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/dists/testing/Release: Jan 13 21:46:08 main-menu[4593]: (process:4682): 2019-01-13 21:45:12 ERROR 404: Not Found. Jan 13 21:46:08 main-menu[4593]: INFO: Menu item 'choose-mirror' succeeded but requested to be left unconfigured. Jan 13 21:46:08 main-menu[4593]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for brltty-udeb Jan 13 21:46:08 main-menu[4593]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for brltty-udeb Jan 13 21:46:12 main-menu[4593]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for brltty-udeb
Jan 13 21:46:12 main-menu[4593]: INFO: Menu item 'di-utils-shell' selected ~ # This is what I see when I manually enter ftp.ports.debian.org as the mirror site and debian-ports as the directory. Seems familiar but I can not recall what magic the installer really wants. Dennis