On 2024-08-27 18:03:11, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:

>    Greetings
>    One one of my boxes I have been having issues getting this updated using
>    apt.
>    Mr Tom has been helping me clean up issues with x2go but that is still an
>    ongoing problem
>    For updating this is what's in the  sources.list file:
>    >deb [1]http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-security main contrib
>    non-free
>    >deb-src [2]http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-security main contrib
>    non-free
>    I am also seeing this on occasion:
>    >Err:7 [3]http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-backports InRelease
>    > Temporary failure resolving '[4]deb.devuan.org'

deb.devuan.org is a DNS round robin that spreads the load across several
of our package mirrors. The actual IPs used for this don't change very
often, but did change last weekend, coz I was moving my server to a
different location, so it's IP changed. Shouldn't cause any issues with
resolving though, so that sounds like a DNS problem near your end.

>    Is there a phrase or some code that can be added to apt  to get it to use
>    a different repository?

Pick one from https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/mirror_list.txt and looking at
http://veritas.devuan.org/apt-panopticon/results/Report-web.html might
help you choose one.

In /etc/sources.list change deb.devuan.org to the BaseURL of the chosen mirror.

So, using the mirror at the top of that list (mine BTW), your
sources.list would become -

deb [1]http://sledjhamr.org/devuan/merged daedalus-security main contrib non-free
deb-src [2]http://sledjhamr.org/devuan/merged daedalus-security main contrib non-free

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