On 1/13/19 4:42 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi!
On 1/13/19 10:25 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
I will give that a try right away. What lines should one have in the
/etc/apt/sources.list to make life somewhat easy ? I have had some
difficulties with local university mirror sites mostly because the
architecture simply doesn't exist there.
Yes, you need to use a Debian Ports mirror. You can use this sources.list:
https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/sources.list
Ports is not mirrored on every Debian mirror.
I certainly found that to be true.
Trying to locate a mirror and I see :
~ # tail /var/log/syslog
Jan 13 21:44:29 anna-install: Installing apt-mirror-setup
Jan 13 21:45:12 choose-mirror[4695]: DEBUG: command: wget --no-verbose
http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/dists/testing/Release -O - |
grep -E '^(Suite|Codename|Architectures):'
Jan 13 21:45:12 choose-mirror[4695]: WARNING **: mirror does not support
the specified release (testing)
Jan 13 21:46:08 main-menu[4593]: (process:4682):
http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/dists/testing/Release:
Jan 13 21:46:08 main-menu[4593]: (process:4682): 2019-01-13 21:45:12
ERROR 404: Not Found.
Jan 13 21:46:08 main-menu[4593]: INFO: Menu item 'choose-mirror'
succeeded but requested to be left unconfigured.
Jan 13 21:46:08 main-menu[4593]: INFO: Falling back to the package
description for brltty-udeb
Jan 13 21:46:08 main-menu[4593]: INFO: Falling back to the package
description for brltty-udeb
Jan 13 21:46:12 main-menu[4593]: INFO: Falling back to the package
description for brltty-udeb
Jan 13 21:46:12 main-menu[4593]: INFO: Menu item 'di-utils-shell' selected
~ #
This is what I see when I manually enter ftp.ports.debian.org as the
mirror site and debian-ports as the directory. Seems familiar but I can
not recall what magic the installer really wants.
Dennis
