Re: Preferred Mirrors for Apt

2006-12-08 Thread Jochen Schulz
David Baron: > > However, with the scheme I propose, all Debian packages would be taken care > of. Other stuff like qmail, systemimage, stuff that one needs a repository > other than Debian's own mirrors, would need be explicitely listed. This is the current situation. IIRC, the installer even

Re: Preferred Mirrors for Apt

2006-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 10:45:56PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > If you have it working, then, why bother to change it? > > However, with the scheme I propose, all Debian packages would be taken care > of. Other stuff like qmail, systemimage, stuff that one needs a repository > other than Debia

Re: Preferred Mirrors for Apt

2006-12-06 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 22:27, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 10:26:04PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 December 2006 21:48, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 08:17:14PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 06 December

Re: Preferred Mirrors for Apt

2006-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 10:26:04PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > On Wednesday 06 December 2006 21:48, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 08:17:14PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > > On Wednesday 06 December 2006 18:35, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 0

Re: Preferred Mirrors for Apt

2006-12-06 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 21:48, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 08:17:14PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 December 2006 18:35, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 04:23:01PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > > David Baron: > > > > >

Re: Preferred Mirrors for Apt

2006-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 08:17:14PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > On Wednesday 06 December 2006 18:35, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 04:23:01PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > David Baron: > > > > ALL the alternatives available are in /etc/apt/sources.list. I do not > > >

Re: Preferred Mirrors for Apt

2006-12-06 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 18:35, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 04:23:01PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > David Baron: > > > ALL the alternatives available are in /etc/apt/sources.list. I do not > > > want to delete access to ftp.us.debiian.org. I want the local mirrors

Re: Preferred Mirrors for Apt

2006-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 04:23:01PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > David Baron: > > > > ALL the alternatives available are in /etc/apt/sources.list. I do not want > > to > > delete access to ftp.us.debiian.org. I want the local mirrors to be tried > > first. > > There is absolutely no reason to k

Re: Preferred Mirrors for Apt

2006-12-06 Thread Jochen Schulz
David Baron: > > ALL the alternatives available are in /etc/apt/sources.list. I do not want to > delete access to ftp.us.debiian.org. I want the local mirrors to be tried > first. There is absolutely no reason to keep several official mirrors in your sources.list. They all contain the same softw

Re: Preferred Mirrors for Apt

2006-12-06 Thread David Baron
ALL the alternatives available are in /etc/apt/sources.list. I do not want to delete access to ftp.us.debiian.org. I want the local mirrors to be tried first. > /etc/apt/sources.list is where you can change it so apt knows where to look > > David Baron wrote: > > How does one set preferred mirro

Re: Preferred Mirrors for Apt

2006-12-06 Thread Mark
/etc/apt/sources.list is where you can change it so apt knows where to look David Baron wrote: How does one set preferred mirros for Apt. Seems to alway go to http://ftp.us.debian.org which is erratic and slow (usually but not always) accessed from Israel. We have hamakor.co.il which will zip t

Preferred Mirrors for Apt

2006-12-06 Thread David Baron
How does one set preferred mirros for Apt. Seems to alway go to http://ftp.us.debian.org which is erratic and slow (usually but not always) accessed from Israel. We have hamakor.co.il which will zip through if I can get Apt to use it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj