Software - Edit apt sources list to reflect location? SteveR - 05.09.2006, 12:15 Uhr Titel: Edit apt sources list to reflect location?
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?
Thanks.
--Steve
stryder - 05.09.2006, 13:36 Uhr Titel: RE: Edit apt sources list to reflect location?
Seems the sensible thing, and debian encourages this. There is ftp.us.debian.org as well if I am not mistaken.
slh - 05.09.2006, 14:36 Uhr Titel: RE: Edit apt sources list to reflect location?
Rather ftp.us.debian.org
mzilikazi - 05.09.2006, 21:49 Uhr Titel: RE: Edit apt sources list to reflect location?
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.
zulu9 - 05.09.2006, 22:23 Uhr Titel: RE: Edit apt sources list to reflect location?
you can use h2's script to easily switch the mirrors.
http://techpatterns.com/forums/about736.html
If I remember right calling the script with the option -m was for switching mirrors.
Swynndla - 06.09.2006, 02:04 Uhr Titel: RE: Edit apt sources list to reflect location?
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)
piper - 06.09.2006, 02:26 Uhr Titel: RE: Edit apt sources list to reflect location?
apt-get install apt-spy
apt-spy -d testing -a north-america -e 3
SteveR - 06.09.2006, 17:09 Uhr Titel: RE: Edit apt sources list to reflect location?
Thanks kindly for a wealth of info.
gardyloo - 06.09.2006, 17:32 Uhr Titel:
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!
Either tool can benchmark apt mirrors for you.