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Titel: Edit apt sources list to reflect location?
 Verfasst am: 05.09.2006, 12:15 Uhr
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Anmeldung: 19. Aug 2006
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Wohnort: Vermont
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Would it be okay to edit sources list to reflect your physical location? Or would that cause a problem?
For instance if the user physical location is US, would it make any sense to change: ftp.de.debian.org to ftp.debian.org in the sources list?
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Titel: RE: Edit apt sources list to reflect location?
Verfasst am: 05.09.2006, 13:36 Uhr
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| Seems the sensible thing, and debian encourages this. There is ftp.us.debian.org as well if I am not mistaken. |
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Titel: RE: Edit apt sources list to reflect location?
Verfasst am: 05.09.2006, 14:36 Uhr
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Titel: RE: Edit apt sources list to reflect location?
Verfasst am: 05.09.2006, 21:49 Uhr
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If you'd like to really find the best servers you could try netselect-apt or apt-spy. I prefer netselect-apt and of course it is apt-getable.  Either tool can benchmark apt mirrors for you. |
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Titel: RE: Edit apt sources list to reflect location?
Verfasst am: 05.09.2006, 22:23 Uhr
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Titel: RE: Edit apt sources list to reflect location?
Verfasst am: 06.09.2006, 02:04 Uhr
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Wohnort: Auckland, New Zealand
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Thanks mz for another helpfull tip.
(The fastest one netselect-apt found was one that didn't have sources, so I decided to boycott them) |
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Linux is evolution, not intelligent design - Linus Torvalds
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Titel: RE: Edit apt sources list to reflect location?
Verfasst am: 06.09.2006, 02:26 Uhr
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Titel: RE: Edit apt sources list to reflect location?
Verfasst am: 06.09.2006, 17:09 Uhr
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Anmeldung: 19. Aug 2006
Beiträge: 40
Wohnort: Vermont
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| Thanks kindly for a wealth of info. |
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Verfasst am: 06.09.2006, 17:32 Uhr
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| For newish users, I would suggest making sure that you copy your /etc/apt/sources.list file to somewhere before running apt-spy. It may not find many repos that work, at least in a reasonable time, and most certainly won't reproduce all the "specialized" repos that you may have in your sources.list file. Especially if you've customized the file, make a backup. Apt-spy might blank the thing! |
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