Re: dselect is a liar
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:06:41PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:51:50PM +1000, bmcintyre@primus.com.au wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:38:56AM +1000, bmcintyre@primus.com.au wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 01:19:49PM +1000, Bruce McIntyre wrote:
> > > > when i fire up dselect, it tells me that fetchmail version 5.8.11-1 is availible.
> > > > when i check the same on the website it states that version 5.8.12.1 is current
> > > >
> > > > my problem is that fetchmailconf 5.8.12-1 depends on the latter version, which dselect doesn't know about.
> > > >
> > > > the pertinent section in /etc/apt/sources.list reads:
> > > >
> > > > deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> > > > deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
> > > >
> > > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> > > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
> > > >
> > > > is this wrong ?
>
> ....
>
> > I don't mean to flood the list here---but I thought the subject header was not so
> > very clear.
> > I am wondering if this problem is linked to the archives not present problem some
> > people are having.
> >
> > Bruce McIntyre.
> >
>
> Add some deb lines that point to mirrors in the USA (or whatever other
> country that doesn't have trouble) to the bottom of
> your sources.list file.
>
> Some of the austrailian mirrors have been known to be out of sync with
> the rest of debian. This way, if they have old data, you'll get data
> from the USA, if the AU servers are in sync, you'll get it from there
> because apt prefers the servers at the top of the config file...
>
> Mike
>
what, then, does deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian ... point to?
Is it resolved to an Australian server when it sees that I'm requesting files
from there?
Bruce.
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