Re: apt-mirror near ashburn

[Robert Drake <rdrake () direcpath com>]

My suggestion is to use http://http.debian.net/debian as your source.  
It uses geo thingie to figure out the closest mirror to you.


Code is on github if you're interested in how it works.
https://github.com/rgeissert/http-redirector


On 10/5/2013 11:11 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Randy Bush <randy () psg com> wrote:
> > {{{
> > $apt-get install libsm6
> > ...
> > After this operation, 717 kB of additional disk space will be used.
> > Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
> > WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
> >    x11-common libice6 libsm6
> > Install these packages without verification [y/N]?
> > }}}
> >
> > hmmmmm.  ft meade can't even hack the checksums?
> possibly the mirror is just misbehaving :( it's been a while since i
> ran it, so I'm honestly not sure what's going on with it these days.
>
> -chris