On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:04:21 Mike Renfro wrote: | On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 08:51:07PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: | | > Please don't do that. Security updates should come *only* from | > security.debian.org. This was discussed a while, you should be | > able to find some blurb about it in the debian-devel archive, I | > guess. | | Personally, I'd rather not mirror it, but our bandwidth is almost | completely saturated 17-19 hours/day, so if I (or any other local | Debian-using people) want to get security updates during the day, a | local mirror updated nightly appeared to be the easiest option.
I am in a similar situation. I would also like to have a local mirror, so that the multiple Debian machines do not need to go over the internet line. Some do not even have internet access, but would be able to access a local mirror. | What are my other options -- I have frequently had timeouts trying to | make updates from security.debian.org during the day. Assume the | people in charge of managing our bandwidth are doing all they can, and | the saturation problem isn't going away anytime soon. | | -- | Mike Renfro / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, | 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | -- | To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Kind regards, Berend -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Berend De Schouwer, +27-11-712-1435, UCS
