Re: [SLUG] Pls help newbie configure sources.list
This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh said: quote who="Ralph Lett" deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian stable main contrib non-free Best to use http, as it's faster. :) I don't grok that. I always use the ftp servers, on principle: .debs are files, hence the use of File-tp, not HyperText-tp. #deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free Except for this one, cos they don't provide ftp, and the http requests *always* timeout. Another one (which alternates with mirror.aarnet for title of least likely to keep the mirror up to date :) is: # UWA's mirror #deb http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free #deb http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian-non-US/ unstable/non-US main contrib non-free -- jamesw Surely someone writing documentation is familiar with the custom of actually reading it? -- Jeff Waugh, SLUG mailing list -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Pls help newbie configure sources.list
This one time, at band camp, James Wilkinson said: #deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free Except for this one, cos they don't provide ftp, and the http requests *always* timeout. What I meant was: As Debian don't provide FTP access to the security repository, I'm forced to use HTTP for it... which I hate, because it's always timing-out for the update... *especially* for larger packages like glibc that tend to appear frequently in security. :( -- jamesw Surely someone writing documentation is familiar with the custom of actually reading it? -- Jeff Waugh, SLUG mailing list -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Pls help newbie configure sources.list
I don't grok that. I always use the ftp servers, on principle: .debs are files, hence the use of File-tp, not HyperText-tp. If this was the case you would never send Complex (no code!!!) emails for fear of breakin Simple Mail Transport Protocol. and since when *.html not a file? :-) dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Pls help newbie configure sources.list
This one time, at band camp, David Kempe said: I don't grok that. I always use the ftp servers, on principle: .debs are files, hence the use of File-tp, not HyperText-tp. If this was the case you would never send Complex (no code!!!) emails for fear of breakin Simple Mail Transport Protocol. and since when *.html not a file? Pfft, details :) Me, I'm a standards kinda guy, and I like for people to not go doing dumb things that are against standards (like HTML mail, using http for file transfer, closed extensions to kerberos, to name a few). Gah... why do I always go off topic like this? I think I need sleep. -- jamesw Surely someone writing documentation is familiar with the custom of actually reading it? -- Jeff Waugh, SLUG mailing list -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Pls help newbie configure sources.list
quote who="James Wilkinson" Best to use http, as it's faster. :) I don't grok that. I always use the ftp servers, on principle: .debs are files, hence the use of File-tp, not HyperText-tp. First off, with FTP you have to go through the login steps. On a fast host (ie. not my crappy 56k link), you can get that stream of "not a new package list" results very quickly with HTTP, but you'll be waiting around for the anonymous logins with FTP. Add to that the efficiencies of HTTP/1.1, and you're doing much better than FTP. Surely someone writing documentation is familiar with the custom of actually reading it? -- Jeff Waugh, SLUG mailing list GAR. - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://lwn.net/daily/ -- "Socks for the foot menu!" - Liam Quin (Ankh) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Pls help newbie configure sources.list
quote who="Ralph Lett" deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian stable main contrib non-free Best to use http, as it's faster. :) Here's my list (commented, as I use unstable from the US servers): # Debian AARNet #deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free #deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian stable main contrib non-free #deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free #deb-src http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian stable main contrib non-free #deb-src http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free Note the sourceline for the security releases server in the US, and also the "stable/non-US" part of the non-US lines. :) - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://lwn.net/daily/ -- - What inspired you to become a bus driver? - Linus Torvalds. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Pls help newbie configure sources.list
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 04:11:53PM +1100, Ralph Lett wrote: *snip* # Debian au deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian stable main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US stable main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian stable main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debain-non-US stable main contrib non-free The non-US archives are in a different place. Those lines should look like: deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian stable/non-US main contrib non-free Cheers, Peter -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
