On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:26:15AM -0400, Robert James Kaes wrote:
Thanks. I added those lines, did an apt-get update and then my apt-get
dselect-upgrade. The required files all came in, but they came in from
the http://http.us.debian.org address. Can you explain why the files
would come in now with those added mirror lines, but from a server that
failed prior to those lines being added?
Because http.us.debian.org is a round-robin DNS, referring to several
mirrors, and you were iterating through them all until you actually found
one that had all the packages you wanted.
<sigh> Just another unstable user that can't be bothered to read
debian-devel-announce, where it was announced that ftp-master was in search
of new hosting, and therefore mirrors are not updating.