On 2024-08-28 10:25:09, onefang wrote:
> 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
Oops, ignore the [1] and [2], I was copy pasting from the lines you
posted, but forgot that my email client numbers any URL it spots, so I
can get a menu of them to load into my web browser. Should have been -
deb
http://sledjhamr.org/devuan/merged daedalus-security main contrib non-free
deb-src
http://sledjhamr.org/devuan/merged daedalus-security main contrib non-free
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