You might also be interested in a small program called netselect-apt. It's a bash script, actually. It's a great help in determining which are the fastest mirrors for your location. There's not any help available, but it's pretty simple. You can figure it out by reading the manual on netselect & taking a look at the code for netselect-apt.
Cheers! cmr Douglas J Hunley wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > C M Reinehr shocked and awed us all by speaking: >> I had to refresh my memory by taking a quick look at the sources.list file >> from Knoppix 3.2 and it looks as if it's pretty complete. The mirrors >> included are the "official" Debian mirrors, but there are, probably, over >> a hundred other mirrors worldwide. Check out: http://www.debian.org/mirror/ >> >> The security mirrors are, perhaps, the most important mirrors to include >> in your sources.list. Then, the standard debian mirrors. After that, it's >> a matter of including mirrors for applications for which you have a >> specific interest, which are not included in the standard mirrors, i.e., >> Java: deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian testing main non-free >> >> Hope this helps. I'm just learning my way around apt & dpkg, myself. > > it do indeed. thanks > - -- > Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 > http://doug.hunley.homeip.net && http://www.linux-sxs.org > > "The only secure computer is one that's unplugged, locked in a safe, and > buried 20 feet under the ground in a secret location... and I'm not even too > sure about that one" -- Dennis Huges, FBI. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/IVoS2MO5UukaubkRAmipAJ49Jx61Y938Y22SeNZawn/qW29NYACeNUkW > 4toShDJ/w6VxTvVCZYW5L0g= > =RfCP > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Registered Linux User #241964 ---- "Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger." -- Samwise Gamgee _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
