We're going to be changing ftp.debian.org setup a bit... but first,
a friendly reminder.
Many people seem to think that ftp.debian.org is the canonical location of
Debian packages and that it will be best for them to use that site for apt
or for mirroring. This is *not true*.
ftp.debian.org is merely one of several servers that get updated from an
internal Debian server. That address is presently located on a single server
in the United States, and it still exists mainly for backwards
compatibility.
In the future, it may get services reduced, or shut down, or converted into
a globally load-balanced name, or whatever. Please don't use it.
If you're using it now, please switch to a country-based DNS name
such as ftp.us.debian.org, ftp.ca.debian.org, ftp.uk.debian.org, ...
The list of those servers is at http://www.debian.org/mirror/list
Now, back to the current business. Because of local disk space issues,
ftp.d.o has had intermittent problems over the past few months, and right
now it's simply not able to update the debian archive. It's currently
carrying a full mirror of oldstable, and a 'debian-typical' mirror
(i386, amd64, source) of everything else (stable, testing, unstable).
We'll have to reduce the size of its mirror of oldstable as well, so
that it keeps enough free disk space to be able to update what it has.
(Some time ago, we have contacted all registered mirrors rsyncing off that
machine asking them to switch to a better place. All mirrors with reasonably
responsive maintainers will not be affected; those who have ignored our
advice might notice changes.)
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12-04-2007, 04:33 AM
"David Fox"
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On 12/3/07, Josip Rodin <mirrors@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We're going to be changing ftp.debian.org setup a bit... but first,
> a friendly reminder.
OK, I got bitten and just checked my /etc/apt/sources.list, and
noticed all my debian references were to ftp.debian.org. I beg
penance.
So I switched them all to ftp.us.debian.org, and did a "sudo aptitude
update" yet I am getting a "segmentation fault" as the last line of
that output.
I notice /var has some space, but maybe not enough?
I'm going to clean /var/cache/apt/archives just in case.
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12-04-2007, 05:26 AM
NN_il_Confusionario
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On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:33:52PM -0800, David Fox wrote:
> Fetched 23.8kB in 4s (5406B/s)
> Segmentation faultsts... 95%
> I'm going to clean /var/cache/apt/archives just in case.
This is better:
rm /var/cache/apt/*pkgcache.bin
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12-04-2007, 06:27 AM
Ron Johnson
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On 12/03/07 13:52, Josip Rodin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We're going to be changing ftp.debian.org setup a bit... but first,
> a friendly reminder.
>
> Many people seem to think that ftp.debian.org is the canonical location of
> Debian packages and that it will be best for them to use that site for apt
> or for mirroring. This is *not true*.
>
> ftp.debian.org is merely one of several servers that get updated from an
> internal Debian server. That address is presently located on a single server
> in the United States, and it still exists mainly for backwards
> compatibility.
>
> In the future, it may get services reduced, or shut down, or converted into
> a globally load-balanced name, or whatever. Please don't use it.
>
> If you're using it now, please switch to a country-based DNS name
> such as ftp.us.debian.org, ftp.ca.debian.org, ftp.uk.debian.org, ...
> The list of those servers is at http://www.debian.org/mirror/list
Does the same go for ../project/experimental?
> Now, back to the current business. Because of local disk space issues,
> ftp.d.o has had intermittent problems over the past few months, and right
> now it's simply not able to update the debian archive. It's currently
> carrying a full mirror of oldstable, and a 'debian-typical' mirror
> (i386, amd64, source) of everything else (stable, testing, unstable).
>
> We'll have to reduce the size of its mirror of oldstable as well, so
> that it keeps enough free disk space to be able to update what it has.
>
> (Some time ago, we have contacted all registered mirrors rsyncing off that
> machine asking them to switch to a better place. All mirrors with reasonably
> responsive maintainers will not be affected; those who have ignored our
> advice might notice changes.)
>
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12-04-2007, 07:45 AM
Stefano Zacchiroli
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On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 08:52:00PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> If you're using it now, please switch to a country-based DNS name
> such as ftp.us.debian.org, ftp.ca.debian.org, ftp.uk.debian.org, ...
> The list of those servers is at http://www.debian.org/mirror/list
The PTS is "using" it, in the sense that the links from per-package
pages to the constituents of the source package (.dsc/.diff/...) point
to inner URLs of ftp.debian.org.
Since I don't know where the current PTS page reader is coming from, do
we have a sourceforge-like mirror guesser/chooser which can redirect an
absolute URL pointing into a generic Debian mirror to a country-based
Debian mirror URL?
I'm aware only of URLs like
http://packages.debian.org/sid/bash/i386/download which are use in
packages.d.o, but they are just for .deb. packages.d.o itself is using a
fixed mirror (de) for downloading .dsc/.diff/...
Cheers.
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12-04-2007, 07:54 AM
Josip Rodin
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On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:27:22AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Many people seem to think that ftp.debian.org is the canonical location of
> > Debian packages and that it will be best for them to use that site for apt
> > or for mirroring. This is *not true*.
> >
> > If you're using it now, please switch to a country-based DNS name
> > such as ftp.us.debian.org, ftp.ca.debian.org, ftp.uk.debian.org, ...
> > The list of those servers is at http://www.debian.org/mirror/list
>
> Does the same go for ../project/experimental?
Yes. All normal mirrors that carry debian/ also have project/experimental.
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12-04-2007, 05:04 PM
Frank Lichtenheld
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On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:45:57AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> I'm aware only of URLs like
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/bash/i386/download which are use in
> packages.d.o, but they are just for .deb. packages.d.o itself is using a
> fixed mirror (de) for downloading .dsc/.diff/...
It used to use ftp.d.o but I switched to de since that is a very
reliable mirror with very good connection.
Gruesse,
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12-04-2007, 07:35 PM
Thierry Chatelet
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On Tuesday 04 December 2007 09:54, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:27:22AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > Many people seem to think that ftp.debian.org is the canonical location
> > > of Debian packages and that it will be best for them to use that site
> > > for apt or for mirroring. This is *not true*.
> > >
Maybe, it would be wise to remove it from the proposed locations in the
installer!
Thierry
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12-04-2007, 08:39 PM
Stefano Zacchiroli
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On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 07:04:23PM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> > http://packages.debian.org/sid/bash/i386/download which are use in
> > packages.d.o, but they are just for .deb. packages.d.o itself is using a
> > fixed mirror (de) for downloading .dsc/.diff/...
> It used to use ftp.d.o but I switched to de since that is a very
> reliable mirror with very good connection.
I'm pretty sure you had good reasons for that, and I was aware as well
that de has good connection and is very reliable.
Still, I was wondering if we have a redirector somewhere I was not aware
of. If this is not the case I'll switch to ftp.de as well for the PTS.
(Though that will be in some respect a pity, we have several mirrors and
not a single one for a reason, after all.)
Cheers.
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12-04-2007, 08:44 PM
Andrei Popescu
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On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:35:41PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 December 2007 09:54, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:27:22AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > Many people seem to think that ftp.debian.org is the canonical location
> > > > of Debian packages and that it will be best for them to use that site
> > > > for apt or for mirroring. This is *not true*.
> > > >
>
> Maybe, it would be wise to remove it from the proposed locations in the
> installer!
> Thierry
The last installation I recall prompted for a mirror based on my
location (Romania). It offered only Romanian mirrors, the first being
ftp.ro.debian.org (the primary mirror for Romania).
Regards,
Andrei
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