On 1/31/17, Benjamin Moody <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > What is currently recommended as the best 'global' apt mirror URL > for *jessie* systems? (I.e. when setting up a virtual machine > that might need to run unmodified from anywhere in the world?) > > Should I use the HTTP redirector (httpredir.debian.org), or the > DNS redirector (deb.debian.org)? Or something else? > > Benjamin > (not subscribed, please CC)
Hi, Benjamin.. I JUST encountered this in last couple days involving an OMG!!! FINALLY!!! successful debootstrap of Stretch/Testing. My debootstrap sessions start with some take on this line (with adjustments per the variables as needed): debootstrap --arch amd64 stretch /mnt/cin ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian That autogenerates a one-line repository that caught my attention this time around. I've become used to seeing the httpredir version because of that right there. That httpredir came to my attention last year'ish via something like Debian-Publicity or similar. A few short weeks later it showed up on its own k/t my next Sid debootstrap soon afterward. I started to fib and say I left it there because it was a developer provided tweak, but a quick peek at backups says NOPE. Instead I commented it out and reverted back to the deb. one. My memory is fading, but it SEEMS LIKE I did that because it was taking FOREVER for the *_CHOICES_* ***IT*** made each time apt-get reached into the repositories. :) THIS WEEK aka two days ago, this is Stretch's tweak (k/t developers again): deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch main That's it. That's all I know on that. I may be remembering wrong on this, too, but it SEEMS LIKE I saw some chatter about https (vs http://) a while back. Haven't seen that reflected anywhere as a default, though. For now, that's also "it", all of "it", that is in my /etc/apt/sources.list. The EXTREMELY rare times I ever have to step outside that, I still don't change that. I go through the pain of manually wget'ing (wget -c) the dotDeb archives I need then I use dpkg to install. Keeping a one-liner sources.list is just my (very stubborn) thing here. There's no "mucking around" through a bunch of lines in that file so it's very *cognitively friendly*. The additional payoff is that you learn a little more under the hood that you might not experience otherwise when you go that route. *grin* Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * Stretch/Testing with LXDE (and aewm/++ and pekwm and what else was it...?) *
