Re: 3.0.19-bf2.4 install report

2002-02-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Jordi Mallach wrote on Tue Feb 19, 2002 um 07:40:45PM: > ca is Catalan, and should point to "es". > Same for "gl", another lang spoken in Spain. Okay, fixing. > Anyway, I see this gets mapped into http.code.debian.org. Was an copy&paste error, already fixed. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -

Re: 3.0.19-bf2.4 install report

2002-02-19 Thread Philip Blundell
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 18:40, Jordi Mallach wrote: > I assume many mirrors don't have the http variant: > http.es.debian.org doesn't exist. Very few do. Try "host -l debian.org | grep http". p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: 3.0.19-bf2.4 install report

2002-02-19 Thread Jordi Mallach
Hi Edward, I don't know if this patch was committed or if it will be committed, but just in case: On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 07:39:19PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > +char *mirror_country_map[] = { > +/* "en", "us", > + "ca", "us", > +/* "gl", "us", */ ca is Catalan, and should point to "es"

Re: 3.0.19-bf2.4 install report

2002-02-19 Thread Phil Blundell
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 03:06, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > I think it would be nice to have an entry associating > language to a URL. > > Or make the entry _("ftp.us.debian.org") a translatable string > to give a somewhat sane-ish result. Translating the string will probably just give you the same re

Re: 3.0.19-bf2.4 install report

2002-02-18 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > I guess you need to use ftp for this stuff. Other than that the patch > seems OK to me (visually -- I haven't actually tested it). Now that the > two-level LC is enabled again, though, I still think it would be better > to just associ

Re: 3.0.19-bf2.4 install report

2002-02-17 Thread Philip Charles
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Glenn McGrath wrote: > Have you tried netselect-apt, i would be interested to know if it doesnt find the >best mirror. > The best site for me is ftp.debian.org followed by a number of European sites. NZ sites are partial or out of date and tha Australian ones are slow. Ph

Re: 3.0.19-bf2.4 install report

2002-02-17 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 11:21:54PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 23:53:44 +1300 (NZDT) "Philip Charles" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Why not use fping to check the reply speed of all the mirrors, and > > > choose the fastest as the suggested mirror? > > > > In my cas

Re: 3.0.19-bf2.4 install report

2002-02-17 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 23:53:44 +1300 (NZDT) "Philip Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why not use fping to check the reply speed of all the mirrors, and > > choose the fastest as the suggested mirror? > > In my case the closest mirror is probably San Francisco, a mere 10,000 km > (6,000 mile

Re: 3.0.19-bf2.4 install report

2002-02-17 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Philip Charles wrote on Sun Feb 17, 2002 um 11:53:44PM: > In my case the closest mirror is probably San Francisco, a mere 10,000 km > (6,000 miles) away. My isp's satellite uplink is there. > > In other words, let people choose their mirrors. People can choose their mirror. The only

Re: 3.0.19-bf2.4 install report

2002-02-17 Thread Philip Charles
On 17 Feb 2002, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Philip Blundell] > > If we want to provide suggestions for nearby mirrors, I don't > > honestly think there is any reliable way to derive an address from > > the locale name. It would almost certainly be better to just add an > > extra "lang->mirr

Re: 3.0.19-bf2.4 install report

2002-02-17 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Philip Blundell] > If we want to provide suggestions for nearby mirrors, I don't > honestly think there is any reliable way to derive an address from > the locale name. It would almost certainly be better to just add an > extra "lang->mirror" field or something and let people fill in their > fa

Re: 3.0.19-bf2.4 install report

2002-02-16 Thread Philip Blundell
On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 18:39, Eduard Bloch wrote: > + sprintf(nf_state.server.hostname, "http.%s.debian.org", >mirror_country_map[i+1]); > + goto hostname_set; pb@kc:~$ host http.de.debian.org http.de.debian.org does not exist, try again pb@kc:~$ I guess you need to use ftp

Re: 3.0.19-bf2.4 install report

2002-02-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Philip Blundell wrote on Sat Feb 16, 2002 um 05:40:44PM: > see). Even if you use "ftp.CC.debian.org", not all countries have a > mirror so you would need some way of checking if the server exists or > not. And, finally, lang->locale is a full locale name like > "en_GB.ISO-8859-1", not

Re: 3.0.19-bf2.4 install report

2002-02-16 Thread Philip Blundell
On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 15:23, Eduard Bloch wrote: > +#ifdef USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER > + /* ugly... this will work as long as the LANG name has two chars. Preffer "us > " > + * when "en". */ > + sprintf(nf_state.server.hostname, "http.%s.debian.org", strcmp(lang->locale, > "en")==0 ? "us" : lang->

Re: 3.0.19-bf2.4 install report

2002-02-16 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 16:23:40 +0100 "Eduard Bloch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #include > Glenn McGrath wrote on Sun Feb 17, 2002 um 12:53:55AM: > > > The only hitch i encountered was the mbr, after i installed i changed > > the bios boot drive, then when it tried booting i got "L 01 01 01"

Re: 3.0.19-bf2.4 install report

2002-02-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Glenn McGrath wrote on Sun Feb 17, 2002 um 12:53:55AM: > The only hitch i encountered was the mbr, after i installed i changed > the bios boot drive, then when it tried booting i got "L 01 01 01" > with 01 constantly repeating... i vagually remember seeing a warning > about doing su

3.0.19-bf2.4 install report

2002-02-16 Thread Glenn McGrath
I just installed the 2.4 kernel boot-floppies, went pretty well. The only hitch i encountered was the mbr, after i installed i changed the bios boot drive, then when it tried booting i got "L 01 01 01" with 01 constantly repeating... i vagually remember seeing a warning about doing such a t