I was just reminded about the Debian services to dynamically find the closest Debian mirror using DNS, and started to wonder if we should switch to this one in Debian Edu as well.
See <URL: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/02/msg00700.html > for background information. This is the needed patch for debian-edu-config (might need changes to debian-edu-install as well). Should I apply it? Any comments, suggestions, objections, etc? Index: cf/cf.apt =================================================================== --- cf/cf.apt (revision 67378) +++ cf/cf.apt (working copy) @@ -3,14 +3,14 @@ debian:: { /etc/apt/sources.list - AppendIfNoSuchLine "#deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free" + AppendIfNoSuchLine "#deb http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates main contrib non-free" AppendIfNoSuchLine "### Use (by uncommenting) either http or ftp, NOT both" AppendIfNoSuchLine "### http based apt source: ----------------" - AppendIfNoSuchLine "# deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free" - AppendIfNoSuchLine "# deb http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/ squeeze local" + AppendIfNoSuchLine "# deb http://cdn.debian.net/debian squeeze main contrib non-free" + AppendIfNoSuchLine "# deb http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux squeeze local" AppendIfNoSuchLine "### ftp based apt source: -----------------" - AppendIfNoSuchLine "# deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free" - AppendIfNoSuchLine "# deb ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/ squeeze local" + AppendIfNoSuchLine "# deb ftp://cdn.debian.net/debian squeeze main contrib non-free" + AppendIfNoSuchLine "# deb ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux squeeze local" AppendIfNoSuchLine "#" AppendIfNoSuchLine "# Volatile Sources, read http://volatile.debian.net/ for details" AppendIfNoSuchLine "# deb http://volatile.debian.net/debian-volatile squeeze/volatile main contrib non-free" @@ -19,14 +19,14 @@ debian.ltspserver:: # A copy of the above { /opt/ltsp/$(ltsp_arch)/etc/apt/sources.list - AppendIfNoSuchLine "#deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free" + AppendIfNoSuchLine "#deb http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates main contrib non-free" AppendIfNoSuchLine "### Use (by uncommenting) either http or ftp, NOT both" AppendIfNoSuchLine "### http based apt source: ----------------" - AppendIfNoSuchLine "#deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free" - AppendIfNoSuchLine "#deb http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/ squeeze local" + AppendIfNoSuchLine "#deb http://cdn.debian.net/debian squeeze main contrib non-free" + AppendIfNoSuchLine "#deb http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux squeeze local" AppendIfNoSuchLine "### ftp based apt source: -----------------" - AppendIfNoSuchLine "#deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free" - AppendIfNoSuchLine "#deb ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/ squeeze local" + AppendIfNoSuchLine "#deb ftp://cdn.debian.net/debian squeeze main contrib non-free" + AppendIfNoSuchLine "#deb ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux squeeze local" AppendIfNoSuchLine "#" AppendIfNoSuchLine "### Volatile Sources, read http://volatile.debian.net/ for details" AppendIfNoSuchLine "#deb http://volatile.debian.net/debian-volatile squeeze/volatile main contrib non-free" Index: sbin/debian-edu-ltsp =================================================================== --- sbin/debian-edu-ltsp (revision 67378) +++ sbin/debian-edu-ltsp (working copy) @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ securitymirror="" extramirror="" else - mirror=http://ftp.debian.org/debian + mirror=http://cdn.debian.net/debian extramirror="http://ftp.skolelinux.no/skolelinux $dist local" securitymirror="http://security.debian.org/ $dist/updates main contrib" components="main contrib" Index: sbin/debian-edu-pxeinstall =================================================================== --- sbin/debian-edu-pxeinstall (revision 67378) +++ sbin/debian-edu-pxeinstall (working copy) @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ [ "$dist" ] || dist=$(lsb_release -s -c) [ "$archs" ] || archs="i386 amd64" -[ "$mirrorurl" ] || mirrorurl=http://ftp.skolelinux.org/debian +[ "$mirrorurl" ] || mirrorurl=http://cdn.debian.net/debian [ "$archiveurl" ] || archiveurl=http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux [ "$hostname" ] || hostname=pxeinstall [ "$domain" ] || domain=intern @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ # Avoid questions about mirrors, using manual setup choose-mirror-bin mirror/country string manual choose-mirror-bin mirror/protocol select http -choose-mirror-bin mirror/http/hostname string ftp.skolelinux.org +choose-mirror-bin mirror/http/hostname string cdn.debian.net choose-mirror-bin mirror/http/directory string /debian EOF else Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
