Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote: > I use two repositories for Debian Wheezy for the same purpose. One > of them is "HTTP" and another one is "FTP". My two alternatives > sources.list are as follows:
> "*/deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main/**/ > /**/deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main/**/ > /**/ > /**/deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-updates main/**/ > /**/deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-updates main/**/ > /**/ > /**/deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main/**/ > /**/deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main/*" What is up with the */ and /**/ stuff? Is that really in your file? Or did you put them there for some purpose? The comment syntax for the sources.list file is the '#' character not C style comments. And that first line with "*/" is bogus either way. The above is using the new http.debian.net redirector. You can read about it here: http://http.debian.net/ https://wiki.debian.org/DebianGeoMirror > Another sources.list is, > > "*/deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy main/**/ > /**/deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy main/**/ > /**/ > /**/deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy-updates main/**/ > /**/deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy-updates main/**/ > /**/ > /**/deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main/**/ > /**/deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main/*" That one is using the truly global non-geographic ftp.debian.org alias. At one time that used to contain several IP addresses. Now it only contains one. I hadn't heard that it was a CDN. I think it might be the single Debian machine klecker in the Netherlands. > Now I want to know which sources.list should I use for Debian > Wheezy? Which would be better? The usual recommendation is to use the mirror list for your country. http://www.debian.org/mirror/list For example the US mirror list would be ftp.us.debian.org. The Australia mirror list would be ftp.au.debian.org. You can't go wrong using one of the official mirrors for your country. Here is a complete example for the US. deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy-updates main deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy-updates main deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main More recently the http redirector has gained some momentum. It has been working well for me. If you were traveling often through many different countries then I recommend using the http.debian.net redirector as it will usually do the best thing for your location. Note that as a debian.net instead of debian.org this indicates that is is a Debian Developer project but not an official part of Debian itself yet. Many services start out as debian.net services and then if they prove worthy are migrated into the core debian.org infrastructure. Here is a complete example set using the http redirector. deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-updates main deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-updates main deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main Bob
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