Re: How to find new url's for sources.list?
Incoming from Greg Madden:
> On Saturday 10 January 2004 04:04 pm, tripolar wrote:
> > Recently when doing apt-get update I get failures from
> > deb http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/debian/ unstable main
> > non-free contrib
> > I chose that mirror when I did the install because it is near. How do
> > I find other sources? Preferably a .edu in wisconsin, minnesota or
>
> 'netselect-apt <Debian version>' will test a list of mirrors, and build
> an 'apt-sources.list' from the fastest ones it finds. These are not
> necessarily the ones geographically closest.
Nor are they necessarily working. I did this this afternoon, found
ftp3.nrc.ca was the fastest non-US (from here), yet apt-get choked on
it whenever it tried to contact it. Fall back is non-us.debian.org
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