--- Sajith T S sajith@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Can anyone share their apt sources? (Someone in Bangalore, possibly - surely folks here should know the fastest mirrors as far as Bangalore is concerned, shouldn't they? I could have used apt-spy but it takes hours.)
Apt-spy does take hours you can cut down the time significantly by limiting the test to Asia region using (-d , -a I guess) or using custom spy-list.
#/etc/apt/spy-list
Asia: IN JP
Furthermore, is it a good idea to upgrade from Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (the stuff that came in a DVD with PC Quest in 2004 December) to the latest unstable?
I guess so, they would be have lot of bug fixes and updates. I suggest not to go to sid unless you are ready to face a lot of package transitions that are going now to meet the December 2006 release or until freeze. That means you need some bandwidth to get these packages regularly.
Some of the fast debian repo's from my sources.list over last one year.
deb ftp://ftp.iitm.ac.in/debian sid main
deb ftp://ftp.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/debian unstable main non-free contrib deb-src ftp://ftp.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/debian unstable main non-free contrib
deb http://mirror.nus.edu.sg/Debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb-src http://mirror.nus.edu.sg/Debian unstable main non-free contrib
deb ftp://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main deb-src ftp://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
Also look at the Debian Mirror Checker (http://mirror.debian.org/status.html) for the sync status of your mirror.
Cheers
--arky