Nate Duehr([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > William Jensen wrote: > >I'm following Etch and apt is reporting no new packages for a touch over a > >week. > > Make sure your /etc/apt/sources.list is pointed at an official Debian > mirror and if you can get a specific example from your friend of > something that updated on his machine but not yours, hunt down which > mirror he got it from and see if your mirror is getting updates properly. >
I found that while testing apt-cacher I had the same problem, If I didn't use the cacher, I got 50 updates. But... while trying to find 'working' mirrors, from the current mirror list, I found many that were just not there. Some of the mirrors took three tries to get a working package list. See previous post on that problem. Here are todays results of a netselect run on the first 7 in the latest mirror list of US sites. netselect -vv ftp.us.debian.org http.us.debian.org ftp.debian.org debian.crosslink.net ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu ftp.egr.msu.edu ike.egr.msu.edu 204.152.191.7 251 ms 12 hops 90% ok ( 9/10) [ 613] 128.101.240.212 225 ms 11 hops 70% ok ( 7/10) [ 676] 35.9.37.225 218 ms 15 hops 57% ok ( 4/ 7) [ 952] ftp.debian.org 225 ms 11 hops 70% ok ( 7/10) [ 674] debian.crosslink.net 217 ms 15 hops 90% ok ( 9/10) [ 605] 128.61.111.11 9999 ms 30 hops 0% ok 128.61.111.10 9999 ms 30 hops 0% ok 128.61.111.9 9999 ms 30 hops 0% ok ftp.egr.msu.edu 198 ms 15 hops 60% ok ( 6/10) [ 825] 128.101.80.133 9999 ms 30 hops 0% ok 35.9.37.225 202 ms 15 hops 50% ok ( 5/10) [ 1010] 216.37.55.114 9999 ms 30 hops 0% ok 208.185.25.35 9999 ms 30 hops 0% ok ike.egr.msu.edu 200 ms 15 hops 50% ok ( 5/10) [ 1002] 605 debian.crosslink.net It seems a waste but it looks like having more then one mirror in the sources.list might be necessary. Wayne -- WINDOWS stands for Will Install Needless Data On Whole System. _______________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
