On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 06:54:10PM +1100, James Wilkinson wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Nov 2000, Doug Stalker generated:
>
> >Matthew Dalton wrote:
> >>
> >> Doug Stalker wrote:
> >> > Is it normal for packages to be missing like this in unstable?
> >>
> >> I think it's more a problem with the aarnet mirror than with debian
> >> unstable. Try a different mirror.
> >>
> >
> >It looks like you were right - I changed my unstable to
> >ftp.monash.edu.au and it seems to be able to grab the libraries it
> >needs.
>
> Agreed, mirror.aarnet has begun to suck for debian updates since redhat
> 7 was released there.
Those are usually temporary things, especially when large packages (like X4)
come into the archive.
But email Jason at mirror and let him know.
> >They don't have non-US though, so I'm hoping the unstable/non-US on
> >aarnet works properly.
>
> What I'm using at the moment:
>
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
>
Ouch. Especially since since UNSW has their own mirror.
http://mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au/
Anand
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