[Gllug] Reliable Debian mirror?

David Damerell damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Wed Sep 5 01:18:51 UTC 2001


On Tuesday, 4 Sep 2001, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
>Can anyone suggest a reliable Debian mirror in the UK?  By reliable I
>mean actually has the packages it lists in Packages.gz.  eg:
>Err http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main tar 1.13.22-1
>  404 Not Found
>in a dselect upgrade.

sunsite.org.uk has a debian mirror, but may I suggest listing the
master ftp site in /etc/apt/sources.list (last)? Apt will use sites
listed first for preference, but in this case would work its way down
to ftp.debian.org.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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