On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 06:54:53AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:26:15AM -0400, Robert James Kaes wrote: > > > >>Thanks. I added those lines, did an apt-get update and then my apt-get > >>dselect-upgrade. The required files all came in, but they came in from > >>the http://http.us.debian.org address. Can you explain why the files > >>would come in now with those added mirror lines, but from a server that > >>failed prior to those lines being added? > > > > > >Because http.us.debian.org is a round-robin DNS, referring to several > >mirrors, and you were iterating through them all until you actually found > >one that had all the packages you wanted. > > > ><sigh> Just another unstable user that can't be bothered to read > >debian-devel-announce, where it was announced that ftp-master was in search > >of new hosting, and therefore mirrors are not updating. > > > > Oh wow... I guess I'm even worse than you. > I didn't realize that there were xorg packages in Debian yet. > > It was my understanding that this might not be for a while because of a > decision to not switch to X.org until they had finished some major > redesign of their software. I guess that's changed?
I think the major thing that held it up was the sarge code freeze. Not that sarge is stable, the dam is bust on testing and unstable. Expect a lot of pent-up changes to appear soon. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
