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I've set up a repository mirror in the Netherlands

Gaer Boy wrote:On a Live boot, using F2 to select English (UK) the UK debian mirrors are listed in sources. I don't know where this magic happens, but could something similar be done for the MX mirrors?

set_mirror() {
    local mirror=$1

    case "$mirror" in
        [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z]) ;;
        *)
            error "$_Bad_mirror_code_X_expected_two_letters_" $(pquote $mirror)
            return;;
    esac

    source_list=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list

    first_write $source_list || [ "$CMD_MIRROR" ] || return

    echo_live "$_Localizing_X_to_Y_mirror_" $(pquote $source_list) $(pquote $MIRROR)
    sed -i "s=/ftp\.\(..\.\)\\?debian\.org/=/ftp.$mirror.debian.org/=" $source_list
}

Stevo wrote:So would the the debian.list file be possibly reset at every boot? If so, it would be frustrating for someone that edited it to get a custom mirror, only to have the customizations vanish. ...

Stevo wrote:So would the the debian.list file be possibly reset at every boot? If so, it would be frustrating for someone that edited it to get a custom mirror, only to have the customizations vanish. If that's how it does work, we should add a comment in the file documenting that.

timkb4cq wrote:Community Repository traffic hit an all-time record last month at over twice the prior years average. Only 1/3 of this traffic was from the US, while Germany, France, U.K, & Italy together accounted for another 1/3.

Accordingly, I've set up a repository mirror in the Netherlands that should serve our European users better, as well as provide some desirable redundancy.

BTW, mxrepo.com also points to the old US server and may be used interchangeably with main.mepis-deb.org

Enjoy!

antiX-Dave wrote:May I ask what times have you set the sync for? Then I can add it to the ignore / trust list and I should not get unwanted messages warning me of possible issues :)

Pierre wrote:as an item of curiosity:
what is the traffic from Oceania?. - if that is available.

timkb4cq wrote:It's loading here, and I can install packages from it.
Could you copy & paste the source line that's failing?

# Use with Debian Wheezy repository. Set as default for MX-14.
deb http://nl.mxrepo.com/stable/ stable main 

Gaer Boy wrote:

timkb4cq wrote:It's loading here, and I can install packages from it.
Could you copy & paste the source line that's failing?

Sorry - I've been out this evening.

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# Use with Debian Wheezy repository. Set as default for MX-14.
deb http://nl.mxrepo.com/stable/ stable main 

Edited in Synaptic - this is the contents of antix.list

Repos:     Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
           deb http://nl.mxrepo.com/antix/stable/ stable main

GuiGuy wrote:Slightly off-topic: "stable" is now jessie, so the sources.list is not really correct.

kmathern wrote:

GuiGuy wrote:Slightly off-topic: "stable" is now jessie, so the sources.list is not really correct.

In the case of the antiX repo, 'deb http://antix.daveserver.info/stable stable main', I don't think the "stable" necessarily equates to "wheezy" or "jessie".

Both MX-14 and antiX-15-beta2-V_386-full have it enabled by default. MX-14 is based on wheezy, antiX-15.... is based on jessie. I didn't check some of the antiX-13.... and antiX-14.... isos I have, but I think they also have it enabled by default.

GuiGuy wrote:Thanks for the replies, gentlemen.

I find this very confusing, and just wish everybody would stop using the word "stable" in connection
with Debian repositories.

lucky9 wrote:What's the name of the debian package that will test repository speeds and pick the fastest?

$ apt-cache show apt-spy
Package: apt-spy
Version: 3.2.2-1
Installed-Size: 101
Maintainer: Stefano Canepa <sc@linux.it>
Architecture: i386
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3), libcurl3 (>= 7.16.2)
Description-en: writes a sources.list file based on bandwidth tests
 Parses the list of mirrors downloaded from ftp.debian.org and then based on
 the region specified by the user each of testes mirrors for bandwidth, at the
 end it writes /etc/apt/sources.list.d/apt-spy.list using the best mirror it
 found out.

Will this page be updated? http://main.mepis-deb.org/

And is the choice of which server to use basically an Eastern/Western Hemisphere sort of thing, or should the Pacific Rim nations use the US server?

Stevo wrote:Will this page be updated? http://main.mepis-deb.org/

Stevo wrote:And is the choice of which server to use basically an Eastern/Western Hemisphere sort of thing, or should the Pacific Rim nations use the US server?