On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 7:27 PM onefang <onefang_devuan@???>
wrote:
> 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
>
>
Thanks you to onefang (what are you going to do when that one breaks - - -
grin!) !!!
Shortly after I set the pleas things started working again so there is
another issue but
that will be a different email.
Regards
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Re: [DNG] Changing repository used
