Package: apt
Version: 0.8.13
Severity: normal
Hi there!
The discussion started on debian-devel@l.d.o, specifically:
<http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/%3c20110310195547.GA24278%40localhost%3e>
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:55:47 +0100, Michael Vogt wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:22:29AM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
>> > What would it take to get cdn.debian.net become a service provided by
>> > the project? In other words, cdn.debian.org, instead of cdn.debian.net.
> [..]
>> I'd really like to see support for sane mirror selection in apt itself,
>> possibly with archive support (i.e. list of mirrors somewhere on
>> ftp.d.o). That would allow apt to for instance retry on a different
>> server if the first one it tried does not work for some reason, and
>> maybe even report the problem to a central mirror.
>
> There is a "mirror" method in apt since some time that is a bit of a
> combined cdn/README.mirrors approach. Its not much used and probably
> has some rough edges but should be a good starting point.
>
> The idea is that you have a sources.list entry like:
> deb mirrors://mirrors.debian.org/mirror sid main
^^^^^^^
The method is singular and mirros.debian.org does not exist. Anyway, my
sid freezes when trying to use it (top shows 3.1g VIRT and 1.6g RES
memory) and then apt dies:
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root@gismo:~# echo "deb mirrors://mirrors.debian.org/mirror sid main" >/etc/apt/sources.list
root@gismo:~# apt-get update
E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/mirrors could not be found.
root@gismo:~# echo "deb mirror://mirrors.debian.org/mirror sid main" >/etc/apt/sources.list
root@gismo:~# apt-get update
0% [Working]terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
what(): std::bad_alloc
E: Method mirror has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process mirror received signal 6.
root@gismo:~# echo "deb mirror://mirror.debian.org/mirror sid main" >/etc/apt/sources.list
root@gismo:~# apt-get update
0% [Working]terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
what(): std::bad_alloc
E: Method mirror has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process mirror received signal 6.
root@gismo:~# find /var/lib/apt/mirrors/
/var/lib/apt/mirrors/
/var/lib/apt/mirrors/partial
root@gismo:~#
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This is on an updated sid with 2GB RAM plus 2GB swap, on an Intel X25-M
80GB SSD partitioned as cryptsetup/LVM/ext4.
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
-- Package-specific info:
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