Re: apt-mirror near ashburn

2013-10-07 Thread Randy Bush
i gave up and put up my own freeping ubuntu apt-mirror randy

Re: apt-mirror near ashburn

2013-10-07 Thread Bryan Seitz
mirror.symnds.com has debian/ubuntu and is in Ashburn on Above.net FYI. On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 01:51:31PM -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote: > there's also the unfortunate case of: "My traffic to the selected > mirror is over the 'expensive' transit port, why can't I use my SFP's > mirror over ther

Re: apt-mirror near ashburn

2013-10-07 Thread Christopher Morrow
there's also the unfortunate case of: "My traffic to the selected mirror is over the 'expensive' transit port, why can't I use my SFP's mirror over there on the left?" setting the mirror to a specific one means some fragility, but determinism is nice. On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Robert Drake

Re: apt-mirror near ashburn

2013-10-07 Thread Robert Drake
On 10/7/2013 11:16 AM, Michael Shuler wrote: Ubuntu != Debian http://askubuntu.com/questions/157840/why-does-apt-get-fail-to-resolve-the-mirror Apparently mirrors.ubuntu.com picks a mirror based on geographical location using lines like this: |deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt pre

Re: apt-mirror near ashburn

2013-10-07 Thread Michael Shuler
On 10/07/2013 09:47 AM, Robert Drake wrote: > My suggestion is to use http://http.debian.net/debian Ubuntu != Debian -- Kind regards, Michael

Re: apt-mirror near ashburn

2013-10-07 Thread Robert Drake
My suggestion is to use http://http.debian.net/debian as your source. It uses geo thingie to figure out the closest mirror to you. Code is on github if you're interested in how it works. https://github.com/rgeissert/http-redirector On 10/5/2013 11:11 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Sat, Oc

Re: apt-mirror near ashburn

2013-10-05 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Randy Bush wrote: > {{{ > $apt-get install libsm6 > ... > After this operation, 717 kB of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue [Y/n]? > WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! > x11-common libice6 libsm6 > Install these p

Re: apt-mirror near ashburn

2013-10-05 Thread Randy Bush
{{{ $apt-get install libsm6 ... After this operation, 717 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! x11-common libice6 libsm6 Install these packages without verification [y/N]? }}} hm. ft meade can't e

Re: apt-mirror near ashburn

2013-10-05 Thread Christopher Morrow
i think the mirror i used to run is still there... ftp://mirrors.supsec.org/pub/linux/ubuntu/dists/precise possibly also: http://ubuntu.supsec.org/dists/precise (this seems to wrok fine for me as well) -chris On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Randy Bush wrote: > anyone have a stable ubuntu 12.04