Re: Using netselect, a list of mirrors

2002-01-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:54:11AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > Personally, I just stick with http://http.us.debian.org. Every mirror > I've tried has been unreliable and almost always broken (the packages > list is never in sync with the available packages). Apparently > running rsync is a diffi

Re: Using netselect, a list of mirrors

2002-01-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 12 January 2002 01:54 pm, Brian Nelson wrote: > Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ron Johnson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: [snip] > Personally, I just stick with http://http.us.debian.org. Every mirror > I've tried

Re: Using netselect, a list of mirrors

2002-01-12 Thread Brian Nelson
Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ron Johnson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > > > > > Try apt-spy instead... > > > > A little cut-and-paste, python and vim produced a nice list for > > netselect. Too bad the fastest mirrors don't work or are way > > out of date... >

Re: Using netselect, a list of mirrors

2002-01-12 Thread Brian Nelson
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson wrote: > > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Saturday 12 January 2002 02:41 am, Brian Nelson wrote: > > > > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I am interested in using netselect to find the mirror site

Re: Using netselect, a list of mirrors

2002-01-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Ron Johnson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > > Try apt-spy instead... > > A little cut-and-paste, python and vim produced a nice list for > netselect. Too bad the fastest mirrors don't work or are way > out of date... > > I am, however, installing apt-spy. > I tried that.

Re: Using netselect, a list of mirrors

2002-01-12 Thread Paul E Condon
Brian Nelson wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Saturday 12 January 2002 02:41 am, Brian Nelson wrote: > > > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I am interested in using netselect to find the mirror site to use for > > > > the most socially responsible download

Re: Using netselect, a list of mirrors

2002-01-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 12 January 2002 03:30 am, Brian Nelson wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Saturday 12 January 2002 02:41 am, Brian Nelson wrote: [snip] > > > Use netselect-apt, as in "netselect-apt stable", which will produce a > > > s

Re: Using netselect, a list of mirrors

2002-01-12 Thread Brian Nelson
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 12 January 2002 02:41 am, Brian Nelson wrote: > > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am interested in using netselect to find the mirror site to use for > > > the most socially responsible downloading of debian packages. The > >

Re: Using netselect, a list of mirrors

2002-01-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 12 January 2002 02:41 am, Brian Nelson wrote: > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am interested in using netselect to find the mirror site to use for > > the most socially responsible downloading of debian packages. The > > li

Re: Using netselect, a list of mirrors

2002-01-12 Thread Brian Nelson
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am interested in using netselect to find the mirror site to use for > the most socially responsible downloading of debian packages. The > lists of mirrors that I have found are cluttered with html formatting > tags that make them neat to read in a brow

Re: Using netselect, a list of mirrors

2002-01-12 Thread Randy Orrison
On Sat, 2002-01-12 at 05:53, Paul E Condon wrote: > I am interested in using netselect to find the mirror site to use for > the most socially responsible downloading of debian packages. When I installed netselect I also got netselect-apt which does exactly this, and produces a sources.list file in