On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:06:41PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:51:50PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:38:56AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 01:19:49PM +1000, Bruce McIntyre wrote: > > > > when i fire up dselect, it tells me that fetchmail version 5.8.11-1 is > > > > availible. > > > > when i check the same on the website it states that version 5.8.12.1 is > > > > current > > > > > > > > my problem is that fetchmailconf 5.8.12-1 depends on the latter > > > > version, which dselect doesn't know about. > > > > > > > > the pertinent section in /etc/apt/sources.list reads: > > > > > > > > deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian unstable main contrib non-free > > > > deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main > > > > contrib non-free > > > > > > > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > > > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib > > > > non-free > > > > > > > > is this wrong ? > > .... > > > I don't mean to flood the list here---but I thought the subject header was > > not so > > very clear. > > I am wondering if this problem is linked to the archives not present > > problem some > > people are having. > > > > Bruce McIntyre. > > > > Add some deb lines that point to mirrors in the USA (or whatever other > country that doesn't have trouble) to the bottom of > your sources.list file. > > Some of the austrailian mirrors have been known to be out of sync with > the rest of debian. This way, if they have old data, you'll get data > from the USA, if the AU servers are in sync, you'll get it from there > because apt prefers the servers at the top of the config file... > > Mike >
what, then, does deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian ... point to? Is it resolved to an Australian server when it sees that I'm requesting files from there? Bruce.
