Re: How to find new url's for sources.list?
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On Saturday 10 January 2004 06:07 pm, s. keeling wrote:
> 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
>
>
> --
> Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
> (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling
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Lately the Non-US mirror I used has been not responding, its the Berkley
CS one. Maybe Non-US is not longer relevnt :)
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Greg Madden
Debian GNU/Linux
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