On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 11:11:30AM +0000, Rowland Penny wrote: > On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:48:20 +0100 > Veteran Unix Admins <free...@devuan.org> wrote: > > > > > Dear dev1rs > > > > the Veteran Unix Admins salute you! > > > > On February 14th 2015, Devuan unveiled a "pre-alpha" Valentine release > > of Devuan Jessie [1] just a few months after the Veteran Unix Admins > > declared their intention to fork Debian on November 27th 2014 [2]. > > That was the beginning of our collective journey. Now, three years > > later, Valentine's day has more love for the Devuan community. The > > long-awaited release of Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta (minor planet nr. 3568) > > is here! > > > > I downloaded the amd64 netinstall iso and installed it on a usb drive. > I then used this to boot a computer, so far so good, attempted an > 'expert install', all went well until it came to selecting a package > mirror. > > I am in the UK, so when I was presented with a list of mirrors, I > selected 'gb.deb.devuan.org'. This lead to an error message: > > [!! Configure the package manager > > Bad archive mirror
Dear Rawland, thank you for your useful report. We know that there are still a few glitches on the country-code based URLs (gb.deb.devuan.irg, ie.deb.devuan.org, us.deb.devuan.org, and so on). We working at solving that. In the meanwhile, it is sensible to use either: deb.devuan.org (a pool of 9-11 mirrors continuosly checked) or pkgmaster.devuan.org The latter supports also https. HTH KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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