Mirrors and apt-get

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Thu Jan 22 00:15:09 UTC 2004


John Lagrue said:
> I know the subject of mirrors has been gone over time and again on here,
> but after a couple of hours' searching I'm getting a bit fed up.
>
> The Fedora webpages give a long list of mirrors, and sure enough many of
> them have gigabytes of useful stuff. But how many of them are in a
> format that apt-get can use?

The official Fedora directories are not apt enabled, so most of the
mirrors aren't either.

I suggest you look for mirrors of the repo that you got apt from. 
Freshrpms.net, fedora.us, etc. generally have apt enabled sites, so their
mirrors are apt enabled, too.

Until a common metadata standard is worked out you will probably have
trouble finding "official" apt mirrors.

-- 
William Hooper





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