On 24 January 2016 at 23:04, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 24 January 2016 16:31:32 Michael Fothergill wrote: > > netselect-apt > > > > On 24 January 2016 at 16:11, <pe...@berghold.net> wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > Yesterday when doing some work with Dockery against Debian 8, when > > > running "apt-get update" it kept failing to load and was issuing 404 > > > errors. Is there something going on with the mirrors that I need to > know > > > about or should I just go ahead and try again today? > > > > I am not sure, but when I get a problem with the current mirror I am > using > > I run netselect-apt . It tells you which mirror is the fastest and when > > you choose it as far as I recall it automatically updates your apt source > > file with the new mirror. > > > Fascinating. But when I ran it just now, just to watch it, it said that it > was writing the matching sources list to the fastest one, but doesn't seem > to > have done so. Not that I am complaining! For the moment I am happy where > I > am! > > Lisi > > It worked for me. I found a mirror that was much faster than the one I was using. MF -- Climostat Ltd Rm 5169 The Heath Business & Technical Park The Heath Runcorn Cheshire WA7 4QX Tel. 01 928 515 015
