Re: Debian mirror / developer machine

2021-06-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
igabytes - the change on release day is likely to be fairly extreme as links change over. OVH - like many hosting providers - already provide a full Debian mirror to their customers on "local network" in the data centres, as it were so maybe another mirror based on their infrstructur

Re: Debian mirror / developer machine

2021-06-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 12 Jun 2021 20:20:11 -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: >No, I ain't talking about derivatives of Debian. I talking about a >mirror by itself, like all the other one around (ftp.xx.debian.org). What advantage would the world have with just another mirror? Is it in a unique plac

Re: Debian mirror / developer machine

2021-06-12 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, > If you are talking about a separate repository to the existing > repository, that sounds like a Debian derivative. Personally I would > encourage people to contribute to Debian rather than starting new > derivatives, except for experiments that will be re-integrated into > Debian. > > https

Re: Debian mirror / developer machine

2021-06-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 10:51 PM Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > I'd like to setup a Debian repository for the community If you are talking about a Debian mirror, there are some resources here: https://www.debian.org/mirror/ If you are talking about a separate repositor

Debian mirror / developer machine

2021-06-12 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi ! I'm currently renting a server in a rack. It's not overly powerful but still does the job. I'd like to setup a Debian repository for the community but maybe this will take too much bandwidth. Yes, what I got is unlimited but I must respect a fair use policy. So if someone has some stats about

Re: Debian mirror

2021-05-17 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi ! On 2021-05-17 11:17 p.m., Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 11:09 PM Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > wrote: >> >> Hi ! >> Maybe this is not the good mailing list, if so, please let me know which >> one to go to. >> I am making a copy of the Debian repository. >> In the past I us

Debian mirror

2021-05-17 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi ! Maybe this is not the good mailing list, if so, please let me know which one to go to. I am making a copy of the Debian repository. In the past I used both debmirror and aptly. With aptly, I can get a possibility to make snapshot. But I need to sign the new mirror with my own key and it can't

Re: IPv6 problem for one debian mirror

2017-02-08 Thread David Kalnischkies
Hi Vincent (and anyone else reading this), On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 01:05:51AM +0100, Vincent Danjean wrote: > As a side note, it is really sad that APT imposes a 1min timeout > for such problem. I proposed a patch in #668948 but never got any > feedback :-( You are like most people under the im

Re: IPv6 problem for one debian mirror

2017-02-08 Thread Adrien CLERC
Le 08/02/2017 à 01:05, Vincent Danjean a écrit : > However, the machine answers to IPv4 connections but not to IPv6 > $ time wget -4 ftp.fr.debian.org > --2017-02-08 00:53:54-- http://ftp.fr.debian.org/ > Résolution de ftp.fr.debian.org (ftp.fr.debian.org)… 212.27.32.66 > Connexion à ftp.fr.debian

Re: IPv6 problem for one debian mirror

2017-02-08 Thread Alexandre Rossi
> Vincent Danjean, on Wed 08 Feb 2017 01:05:51 +0100, wrote: >> However, the machine answers to IPv4 connections but not to IPv6 >> $ time wget -6 ftp.fr.debian.org >> --2017-02-08 00:53:58-- http://ftp.fr.debian.org/ >> Résolution de ftp.fr.debian.org (ftp.fr.debian.org)… 2a01:e0c:1:1598::2 >> Co

Re: IPv6 problem for one debian mirror

2017-02-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Vincent Danjean, on Wed 08 Feb 2017 01:57:02 +0100, wrote: > I had this problem at work this afternoon (ie with Renater routing, > 2001:660:5301:: prefix) No problem from 2001:660:6101::/48 Samuel

Re: IPv6 problem for one debian mirror

2017-02-07 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 08/02/2017 à 01:17, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > Hello, > > Vincent Danjean, on Wed 08 Feb 2017 01:05:51 +0100, wrote: >> However, the machine answers to IPv4 connections but not to IPv6 >> $ time wget -6 ftp.fr.debian.org >> --2017-02-08 00:53:58-- http://ftp.fr.debian.org/ >> Résolution de ft

Re: IPv6 problem for one debian mirror

2017-02-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Vincent Danjean, on Wed 08 Feb 2017 01:05:51 +0100, wrote: > However, the machine answers to IPv4 connections but not to IPv6 > $ time wget -6 ftp.fr.debian.org > --2017-02-08 00:53:58-- http://ftp.fr.debian.org/ > Résolution de ftp.fr.debian.org (ftp.fr.debian.org)… 2a01:e0c:1:1598::2 > C

IPv6 problem for one debian mirror

2017-02-07 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hi, I'm writing to this list to know where to report the following problem. I'm using ftp.fr.debian.org as a mirror on several of my machines. This is a CNAME to a machine of a French ISP: $ dig -t any ftp.fr.debian.org [...] ftp.fr.debian.org. 1894IN CNAME debian.proxad.net

Bug#737000: general: Most used german debian mirror (ftp.de.debian.org) has no IPV6

2014-01-29 Thread Simon Paillard
up debian testing it cost a lot of time to find a debian mirror > which supports IPV6 connections 'cause the first selection is ipv4 only. > > I think, it should changed as soon as possible - or mark ipv6 enabled mirrors > in mirror selection tool on install please. The bug tit

Processed: Re: Bug#737000: general: Most used german debian mirror (ftp.de.debian.org) has no IPV6

2014-01-29 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > reassign -1 mirrors Bug #737000 [general] general: Most used german debian mirror (ftp.de.debian.org) has no IPV6 Bug reassigned from package 'general' to 'mirrors'. Ignoring request to alter found versions of bug #737000 to the same values

Bug#737000: general: Most used german debian mirror (ftp.de.debian.org) has no IPV6

2014-01-29 Thread Rajko Albrecht
debian mirror which supports IPV6 connections 'cause the first selection is ipv4 only. I think, it should changed as soon as possible - or mark ipv6 enabled mirrors in mirror selection tool on install please. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing-updates

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Yasuhiro Araki dijo [Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 07:53:21AM +0900]: > Example of configuration lines are followings for unam.mx. > > $addr_db = { > "133.248.0.0/16" => { # => Request from 133.248.0.0/16 >#For example, DNS client's IP is >

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-19 Thread ARAKI Yasuhiro
Florian Weimer: * ARAKI Yasuhiro: Do you like cdn.debian.net's idea and implementation? Sorry if I sound like a broken record. What kind of software do you use? Is this just DNS-Balance plus a handful of scripts? Patially right. cdn.d.n is consisted by -(modifiled) DNS-balance to return DN

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* ARAKI Yasuhiro: > Do you like cdn.debian.net's idea and implementation? Sorry if I sound like a broken record. What kind of software do you use? Is this just DNS-Balance plus a handful of scripts? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-18 Thread ARAKI Yasuhiro
Hi, On 2/17/08, Leo costela Antunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This CDN checks your hosts DNS query to retrive your national location. > - If your located country has Debian Mirror, return this mirror site IP address. > - If your located continent has Debian Mirror, return t

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-18 Thread Yasuhiro Araki
Hi, On 2/19/08, Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW, thanks for implementing a great idea :) This might be specially > useful for laptop users who often connect from different countries :) > The implementation also gives me some strange results: From my > workstation, in the 132.248. cl

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
ARAKI Yasuhiro dijo [Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 07:53:06PM +0900]: > Hi all, > I am a member of debian mirror administration team in Japan. > > I announce I start cdn.debian.net. > > At 2008-Feb-05, we had started "cdn.debian.org" on global Debian Mirrors. > > Th

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Feb 18, 2008 8:49 AM, Yasuhiro Araki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because cdn.d.n uses DNS query only. Then cdn.d.n can not detect architecture. > If possible, we can make CDN for each architecture (cf. cdn-i386.d.n). Already solved, see: -geomirror.debian.net Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-17 Thread Yasuhiro Araki
Hi, On 2/18/08, Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 03:35:08PM +0100, Leo costela Antunes wrote: > > [No need to CC me, I'm subscribed. Keeping the other CCs since I don't > > know about their subscription status.] > > > > Hi > > > > ARAKI Yasuhiro wrote: > > > I ann

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-17 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
Kurt Roeckx wrote: > And it looks to me like the mirror should also be available via > "/debian". Oh-oh... I hadn't thought about this problem too. Well, I guess it's something that could be asked of the local mirror-admin. If they want their mirror to be a part of the automatic rotation they cou

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 03:35:08PM +0100, Leo costela Antunes wrote: > > - If your located continent has Debian Mirror, return this mirror > > site IP address. > > I don't think this is a good logic for many situations. > For instance: Brazil is in South America, but

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-17 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 03:35:08PM +0100, Leo costela Antunes wrote: > [No need to CC me, I'm subscribed. Keeping the other CCs since I don't > know about their subscription status.] > > Hi > > ARAKI Yasuhiro wrote: > > I announce I start cdn.debian.net. > > You could have announced work on th

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-17 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
. > - If your located country has Debian Mirror, return this mirror site IP > address. > - If your located continent has Debian Mirror, return this mirror site IP > address. I don't think this is a good logic for many situations. For instance: Brazil is in South America, but it does

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-17 Thread ARAKI Yasuhiro
t Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:08:39 +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > 61.115.118.67 is ftp.de.debian.org. I am located in France with an IP > address of one of the largest ISP here. This ISP is hosting an official > Debian mirror. OK. However, your received result is right. Because currentrl

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-17 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Peu avant le début de l'après-midi du dimanche 17 février 2008, vers 13:46, Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > 61.115.118.67 is hanzubin.st.wakwak.ne.jp. I think the whole lists > you show there are Japanese servers. ftp.de.debian.org is 141.76.2.4 > which is the one I get while being

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-17 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Peu avant le début de l'après-midi du dimanche 17 février 2008, vers 13:58, William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: >> 61.115.118.67 is ftp.de.debian.org. I am located in France with an >> IP address of one of the largest ISP here. This ISP is hosting an &g

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-17 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 13:08 +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > 61.115.118.67 is ftp.de.debian.org. I am located in France with an > IP > address of one of the largest ISP here. This ISP is hosting an > official > Debian mirror. 61.115.118.67 is assigned to ASNIC, so there is

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-17 Thread Michal Čihař
eb.cdn.araki.net has address 133.50.218.117 > > deb.cdn.araki.net has address 133.50.218.117 > > > > 61.115.118.67 is ftp.de.debian.org. I am located in France with an IP > > address of one of the largest ISP here. This ISP is hosting an official > > Debian mirror. >

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-17 Thread Kurt Roeckx
located in France with an IP > address of one of the largest ISP here. This ISP is hosting an official > Debian mirror. 61.115.118.67 is hanzubin.st.wakwak.ne.jp. I think the whole lists you show there are Japanese servers. ftp.de.debian.org is 141.76.2.4 which is the one I get while bei

Re: Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-17 Thread Vincent Bernat
i.net has address 133.50.218.117 deb.cdn.araki.net has address 133.50.218.117 61.115.118.67 is ftp.de.debian.org. I am located in France with an IP address of one of the largest ISP here. This ISP is hosting an official Debian mirror. geoiplookup gives me: GeoIP Country Edition: FR, France I

Debian mirror CDN had launched.

2008-02-17 Thread ARAKI Yasuhiro
Hi all, I am a member of debian mirror administration team in Japan. I announce I start cdn.debian.net. At 2008-Feb-05, we had started "cdn.debian.org" on global Debian Mirrors. This CDN checks your hosts DNS query to retrive your national location. - If your located country has Deb

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 12:25:21AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: > > Well, at least it was different... ftp.debian.org is an even more horrible > > default, because that's burdering one single machine maxing out its FE card, > > where we have a network of >300 mirrors out there that

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-29 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 07:48:59PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > Well, at least it was different... ftp.debian.org is an even more horrible > default, because that's burdering one single machine maxing out its FE card, > where we have a network of >300 mirrors out there that are mostly happy > to sha

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 09:50:23AM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > > debootstrap: > > uses ftp.debian.org as default mirror. > > debconf questions aside, I think ftp.debian.org is a much saner *default* > than ftp.jp.debian.org. I've always wondered where the later silly default > came fr

Re: [Pbuilder-maint] A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-28 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > d-i uses the following hack to figure out where to download udebs from > when building installation media: > > grep '^deb[ \t]' $(SYSTEM_SOURCES_LIST) \ > |grep -v '^deb[ \t]cdrom:' \ > |grep -v > '\(security.debian.org\|volatile.debian.\(

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-28 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > After 6 years or so of setting ftp.jp.debian.org as default for > > pbuilder, I'm finally determined that it shouldn't stay like this. So > > I'd like to have some default guessing to happen. Preferably I don't > > want to ask via debconf, since users should have already answered the > >

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 19:49 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 27 May 2007 19:43, Joey Hess wrote: > > d-i uses the following hack to figure out where to download udebs from > > when building installation media: > > Note that this can result in multiple sources. If you want only one, this > hack

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-28 Thread Mark Brown
al users - so long as our error handing is clear we should be OK. Things like "This is really slow compared to normal downloads from my mirror" are probably just as likely. Things like adjusting Debian mirror URLs to include the requested architecture seem reasonable but for local m

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-28 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 27 May 2007 22:42:41 +0300 Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On su, 2007-05-27 at 20:06 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > Unless your own mirror supports all Debian architectures, you will > > still need a primary for emdebian-tools. Do you test build your own > > Debian packages a

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-28 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 27 May 2007 20:53:18 +0100 Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 12:25:50AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > After 6 years or so of setting ftp.jp.debian.org as default for > > pbuilder, I'm finally determined that it shouldn't stay like this. > > So I'd like

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-27 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 12:25:50AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > After 6 years or so of setting ftp.jp.debian.org as default for > pbuilder, I'm finally determined that it shouldn't stay like this. So > I'd like to have some default guessing to happen. Preferably I don't > want to ask via debcon

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-27 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On su, 2007-05-27 at 20:06 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > Unless your own mirror supports all Debian architectures, you will > still need a primary for emdebian-tools. Do you test build your own > Debian packages against your own mirror? Is that wise? I don't use emdebian in any way, so any require

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-27 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 27 May 2007 21:01:19 +0300 Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On su, 2007-05-27 at 18:05 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > That would be very handy! The default could then be the > > closest/quickest primary mirror. It would be important (from my > > perspective) that this default i

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-27 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On su, 2007-05-27 at 18:05 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > That would be very handy! The default could then be the > closest/quickest primary mirror. It would be important (from my > perspective) that this default is required to be a primary mirror - > maybe offer the user only the list of primaries

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 27 May 2007 19:43, Joey Hess wrote: > d-i uses the following hack to figure out where to download udebs from > when building installation media: Note that this can result in multiple sources. If you want only one, this hack would need to be refined. Cheers, FJP pgpKGmesG3WSG.pgp Desc

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-27 Thread Joey Hess
Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Looking for prior art I found the following: d-i uses the following hack to figure out where to download udebs from when building installation media: grep '^deb[ \t]' $(SYSTEM_SOURCES_LIST) \ |grep -v '^deb[ \t]cdrom:' \ |gre

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-27 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 27 May 2007 19:22:26 +0300 Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > emdebian-tools: > > Using 'apt-cache policy' to obtain information > > -> told on IRC that it loses port number info. > > -> probably picks up security mirrors too, which > >

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-27 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > debootstrap: > > uses ftp.debian.org as default mirror. > > debconf questions aside, I think ftp.debian.org is a much saner *default* > than ftp.jp.debian.org. I've always wondered where the later silly default > came from. =) Good Trivia question. The reasons for using ftp.jp.deb

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-27 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ma, 2007-05-28 at 00:25 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > piuparts: > Looks at first 'deb' line from /etc/apt/sources.list > -> Can't handle /etc/apt/sources.list.d > -> Assumes that the top entry is the best I didn't want to have piuparts use all sources.list en

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-27 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 27 May 2007 09:50:23 -0600 "Wesley J. Landaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 27 May 2007 09:25:50 Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > After 6 years or so of setting ftp.jp.debian.org as default for > > pbuilder, I'm finally determined that it shouldn't stay like this. So > > I'd like to h

Re: A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-27 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Sunday 27 May 2007 09:25:50 Junichi Uekawa wrote: > After 6 years or so of setting ftp.jp.debian.org as default for > pbuilder, I'm finally determined that it shouldn't stay like this. So > I'd like to have some default guessing to happen. Preferably I don't > want to ask via debconf, since us

A sane guess at default Debian mirror for pbuilder

2007-05-27 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, After 6 years or so of setting ftp.jp.debian.org as default for pbuilder, I'm finally determined that it shouldn't stay like this. So I'd like to have some default guessing to happen. Preferably I don't want to ask via debconf, since users should have already answered the question at install

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: A few more examples below. I think lzma isn't the right thing for the archive. p7zip seems much faster, needs a lot less ram and compression is similar. > .. >>> Should you be using the "-9" o

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-23 Thread Miles Bader
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> A few more examples below. I think lzma isn't the right thing for the >>> archive. p7zip seems much faster, needs a lot less ram and compression >>> is similar. .. >> Should you be using the "-9" option? The lzma help output says this: >> >> -

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> A few more examples below. I think lzma isn't the right thing for the >> archive. p7zip seems much faster, needs a lot less ram and compression >> is similar. > ... >> Lzma: 34306752 Bytes >> Compressing

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-21 Thread Miles Bader
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A few more examples below. I think lzma isn't the right thing for the > archive. p7zip seems much faster, needs a lot less ram and compression > is similar. ... > Lzma: 34306752 Bytes > Compressing : 19410 mrvn 0 376m 370m R 97.2 36.9 1:5

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
A few more examples below. I think lzma isn't the right thing for the archive. p7zip seems much faster, needs a lot less ram and compression is similar. I didn't measure compression times as I find them somewhat irelevant. A deb is compressed once but downloaded and decompressed a million times.

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-19 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Baumann wrote: > For the KDE flavour, this takes less than two minutes for downloading > the packages, but about 5 minutes for unpacking them. Measured how? Much of the work that dpkg is doing when it prints "Unpacking replacement foo ..." is not uncompressing. -- see shy jo signature.a

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-19 Thread Daniel Baumann
[ debian spamfilters do hate me, resend with different address. ] Russell Coker wrote: > Last time I checked the gzip source had no assembler optimisation for systems > other than i386. So if your 3.2GHz machine (which obviously would be a P4 at > least not an i386) is running the AMD64 instruc

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-19 Thread Daniel Baumann
Russell Coker wrote: > Last time I checked the gzip source had no assembler optimisation for systems > other than i386. So if your 3.2GHz machine (which obviously would be a P4 at > least not an i386) is running the AMD64 instruction set then you could > probably improve performance by running

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 19 January 2007 02:19, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> For the KDE flavour, this takes less than two minutes for downloading >> the packages, but about 5 minutes for unpacking them. This is done on a >> reasonable fast i386 machine

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 19 January 2007 02:19, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the KDE flavour, this takes less than two minutes for downloading > the packages, but about 5 minutes for unpacking them. This is done on a > reasonable fast i386 machine (3.2ghz, 1gb ram, two 250gb barracudas in > rai

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-18 Thread Daniel Baumann
Lars Wirzenius wrote: > I'm not sure if the smaller size that LZMA allows is worth it if it then > takes a lot longer to unpack files Unfortunately, that is already the case today. I have a local mirror via gigabit as I build multiple livecd images on a daily basis. For the KDE flavour, this take

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-15 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 09:25:38AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi, > > > > I'm not sure if the smaller size that LZMA allows is worth it if > > > it then takes a lot longer to unpack files, or if it becomes > > > impossible to do so due to memory requirements. > > > > I don't know on memory re

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-15 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > I'm not sure if the smaller size that LZMA allows is worth it if it then > > takes a lot longer to unpack files, or if it becomes impossible to do so > > due to memory requirements. > > i don't know on memory requirements. but i didn't notice any speed drawbacks > for my personal use. L

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-15 Thread Gürkan Sengün
> Does LZMA have any drawbacks? According to Wikipedia[1,2] indicates that > it is slower than gzip, at perhaps around half the speed, but that it > may require a lot of memory to compress, but reasonably little to > decompress. According to my check last year and a few weeks or months: http://www

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-15 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ma, 2007-01-15 at 14:31 +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 12:39:18PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > Does LZMA have any drawbacks? > > It is far less deployed as bzip2, so manually unpacking .deb packages on > some random GNU/Linux or Unix rescue system is more likely to f

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-15 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 12:39:18PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Does LZMA have any drawbacks? It is far less deployed as bzip2, so manually unpacking .deb packages on some random GNU/Linux or Unix rescue system is more likely to fail. Bzip2 is pretty ubiquitous these days, so comparing lzma num

Re: Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-15 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ures might be a good release goal for lenny. I for one wouldn't mind reducing the size of my personal Debian mirror. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZMA [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_archivers -- Fundamental truth #1: Complexity is the enemy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Debian Mirror with lzma compressed packages

2007-01-15 Thread Gürkan Sengün
Since the day that dpkg officially supports lzma compressed packages, Gürkan runs a mirror of binary packages (i386, sid, main) which can be used easily. The general save of downloading is about 30 %. The scripts how it is done and the pool is here: http://gnu.ethz.ch/debian-lzma/ Gürkan -- To

Re: access to debian mirror pools

2005-09-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 09:34:22AM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote: ... > I have investigated this by grabbing individual files with wget and I have > discovered that the same IP address is selected each time I run wget on a > specific computer. ... > Any insights? Is this a bug, if so for what packa

Re: access to debian mirror pools

2005-09-20 Thread Guilherme de S. Pastore
Em Ter, 2005-09-20 às 09:34 -0500, Carlo Segre escreveu: > Any insights? Is this a bug, if so for what package? I have no idea and haven't investigated what causes this, but it seems like perfectly reasonable behaviour to me, for a simple reason: it's more than one machine, and they all have to s

access to debian mirror pools

2005-09-20 Thread Carlo Segre
Hello All: I have noticed a behavior which I can't quite understand. I had noticed that some of my computers getting files from http.us.debian.org had consistently lower bandwidths than others pointed to the same source. I have investigated this by grabbing individual files with wget and I

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Johann Glaser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Goswin! > >> Afaik it is as simple as: The Filename entries are relative to the URL >> you would put into the sources.list, as in: >> >> deb url path/ >> deb url dist + > > I see. But how does the mirror script know how the particular Packages > file

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-10 Thread Johann Glaser
Hi Goswin! > Afaik it is as simple as: The Filename entries are relative to the URL > you would put into the sources.list, as in: > > deb url path/ > deb url dist + I see. But how does the mirror script know how the particular Packages files are referenced from a (most probably remote) sources.l

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Johann Glaser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > >> > I changed my script to check whether the "Filename:" field is with a >> > './' in front or not. Works for now. Probably another tweaking will be >> > necessary in the future, but currently it is ok. >> >> The ./ is a sideeffect of dpkg-scanpa

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-10 Thread Johann Glaser
Hi! > > I changed my script to check whether the "Filename:" field is with a > > './' in front or not. Works for now. Probably another tweaking will be > > necessary in the future, but currently it is ok. > > The ./ is a sideeffect of dpkg-scanpackages. You should not rely on > that but just reim

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Johann Glaser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > >> There are only 2 cases: >> >> Having 'dists///binary-/' in the path and not. >> >> You could have a Packages file with >> 'dists///binary-/' that is used as if it hadn't >> but that is rather unlikely. >> >> A good indication you are using a

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-08 Thread Johann Glaser
Hi! > There are only 2 cases: > > Having 'dists///binary-/' in the path and not. > > You could have a Packages file with > 'dists///binary-/' that is used as if it hadn't > but that is rather unlikely. > > A good indication you are using a Packages file wrong is also if all > the packages it re

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 05:54:27PM +0200, Johann Glaser wrote: >> Is there a way to find out what the "base path" of a Packages file is >> supposed to be? > > No There are only 2 cases: Having 'dists///binary-/' in the path and not. You could

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-05 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 05:54:27PM +0200, Johann Glaser wrote: > Is there a way to find out what the "base path" of a Packages file is > supposed to be? No > > So all cases are explained by this or by the woody-proposed-updates > > thingy. > > When will the woody-proposed-updates Packages files

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-05 Thread Johann Glaser
Hi! > The first few are not supposed to work with 'normal' sources.list > entries, but with 'deb > http:///debian/dists/sarge/main/update-kernel ./'. I see, thanks. Is there a way to find out what the "base path" of a Packages file is supposed to be? > So all cases are explained by this or by t

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-05 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 05:21:37PM +0200, Johann Glaser wrote: > Jeroen wrote: > > woody-proposed-updates got dropped because there is no more point > > release of woody, so the proposed-updates of it simply are no longer > > relevant. > > I see. Thus, I simply have to wait until woody-proposed-up

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
Johann Glaser wrote: >Hi! > > >Ok, great. Lets have a look. This is the output of my script checking >our internal mirror. It searches all "Packages" files, filters the lines >starting with "Filename:" and checks if these files are present. For a >few weeks it complains about these missing files: >

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-05 Thread Johann Glaser
Hi! > At least some of them are of woody-proposed-updates, which got dropped > from the database, and hence from pool. Indeed, the corresponding > Packages.gz files on the mirrors didn't get dropped yet, which is a > minor bug. > > woody-proposed-updates got dropped because there is no more poin

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-05 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 05:02:56PM +0200, Johann Glaser wrote: > Ok, great. Lets have a look. This is the output of my script checking > our internal mirror. It searches all "Packages" files, filters the lines > starting with "Filename:" and checks if these files are present. For a > few weeks it c

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-05 Thread Johann Glaser
Hi! Am Montag, den 04.07.2005, 11:55 +0200 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow: > Johann Glaser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi! > > > > For a few weeks there are discrepancies between some "Packages" files > > and the files in the ./pool/ directory. Unfortunately the debian-mirrors > > list is dea

Re: Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Johann Glaser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > For a few weeks there are discrepancies between some "Packages" files > and the files in the ./pool/ directory. Unfortunately the debian-mirrors > list is dead since the end of 2003. Therefore I try to ask this list, if > you know anything about

Debian Mirror Problem

2005-07-03 Thread Johann Glaser
Hi! For a few weeks there are discrepancies between some "Packages" files and the files in the ./pool/ directory. Unfortunately the debian-mirrors list is dead since the end of 2003. Therefore I try to ask this list, if you know anything about this discrepancy, if you can point me where I should a

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-14 Thread Brian May
> "Goswin" == Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Goswin> zsync uses the algorithm described in the rsync technical paper Goswin> afaik. Does rsync have a patent issue? Do we realy care about some Goswin> stupid countries patents? My understanding is that rsync doesn'

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-14 Thread Robert Lemmen
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:05:56AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > zsync looks suspiciously like it might have similar patent issues > which killed the rproxy project. > > Then again I am no expert; Please tell me I am wrong... i'm not an expert either, but the zsync maintainer and i talked to a lot of

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "Goswin" == Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Goswin> zsync has the option of looking into gziped files and > Goswin> rsync them as if they would be ungziped (while still just > Goswin> downloading chunks of the gziped fil

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-13 Thread Brian May
> "Goswin" == Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Goswin> zsync has the option of looking into gziped files and Goswin> rsync them as if they would be ungziped (while still just Goswin> downloading chunks of the gziped file). Its a bit more Goswin> complex algorith

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-02-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Filippo Giunchedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 11:59:20PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> > Why there isn't there already a rsync method for apt is probably a > >> > mystery nobody ever will solve. > >> > >> It i

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