you might add this to etch: Fixing netselect-apt netselect-apt efficiently chooses the fastest download mirror for Debian packages out of a list of several hundred mirrors worldwide.
Unfortunately, I noticed after installing a new version of Debian Etch that netselect-apt failed with the message: netselect was unable to find a mirror, this probably means that you are behind a firewall and it is blocking traceroute. It turns out netselect-apt::run_netselect() produces this error when it fails to parse the HTML of the Debian worldwide mirror sites page at http://www.debian.org/mirror/mirrors_full. This page no longer contains \n\n delimiters. Last week, I resolved the problem by modifying run_netselect() to use "<br><br>" instead (highlighted): run_netselect() { SEARCH="$1" PROTO="$2" netselect -v -s 1 $(cat "$infile" \ | perl -n -e ' $/="<br><br>"; while(<>){ next if $_ !~ /Site:/; if( m@'"$SEARCH"':.*<a href="('"$PROTO"'://.*?)">@i ){ print("$1\n"); } }') \ | awk '{print $2}' } -- JCP-Unternehmungen Geschäftsleitung: Johannes C. Pahl Web: WWW.JCP-UNTERNEHMUNGEN.DE eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Post: JCP-UNTERNEHMUNGEN Wannbach 23, 91362 Pretzfeld Franken - Germany (Telefon: +49 (0)9194 722 729) mobil/HOTLINE: +49 (0)170 1939 053 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
