On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:51:50PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:38:56AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 01:19:49PM +1000, Bruce McIntyre wrote: > > > when i fire up dselect, it tells me that fetchmail version 5.8.11-1 is > > > availible. > > > when i check the same on the website it states that version 5.8.12.1 is > > > current > > > > > > my problem is that fetchmailconf 5.8.12-1 depends on the latter version, > > > which dselect doesn't know about. > > > > > > the pertinent section in /etc/apt/sources.list reads: > > > > > > deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian unstable main contrib non-free > > > deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main > > > contrib non-free > > > > > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib > > > non-free > > > > > > is this wrong ?
... > I don't mean to flood the list here---but I thought the subject header was > not so > very clear. > I am wondering if this problem is linked to the archives not present problem > some > people are having. > > Bruce McIntyre. > Add some deb lines that point to mirrors in the USA (or whatever other country that doesn't have trouble) to the bottom of your sources.list file. Some of the austrailian mirrors have been known to be out of sync with the rest of debian. This way, if they have old data, you'll get data from the USA, if the AU servers are in sync, you'll get it from there because apt prefers the servers at the top of the config file... Mike
