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greenjeans

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Registered: 2017-04-07

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Question: Best/fastest repos in general for each continent?

So i'm working on new versions of stuff, and what I want to do is some work on sources.list, currently i'm using gnlug for mine as that's the fastest in the continental US that i've used.

This next version what I want to do is have the default Devuan round-robin entries at the top, with entries below them (commented out by default of course) for the best/fastest repo for each continent. I'll be using gnlug for the North American entry unless there's something better that someone knows about.

But for the other continents I have no way to test, so if any of y'all who live in those places could take a second and let me know what works best for you it would be extremely helpful.

Just trying to make it easier for folks, in my projects I have some documentation explaining repo stuff and of course links to Devuan's online mirror list and such. But I though it would be helpful to give some choices for a starting point if deb.devuan.org isn't working out for them. People could switch right in Synaptic or with a quick edit to sources.list.

Thanks!

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Altoid

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Registered: 2017-05-07

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Re: Question: Best/fastest repos in general for each continent?

Hello:

... if deb.devuan.org isn't working out for them.

I do not recall ever having had any issues with deb.devuan.org*, save for those generated by my FO service provider. 8^°
* ie: -34.60° lat -58.38° long

Best,

A.

Last edited by Altoid (2025-11-02 20:23:54)

NakedRider

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Registered: 2025-02-01

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Re: Question: Best/fastest repos in general for each continent?

I've always used us.deb.devuan.org.

steve_v

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Registered: 2018-01-11

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Re: Question: Best/fastest repos in general for each continent?

Well, if Devuan shipped netselect-apt with a usable mirror list, we could just use that as it's supposed to be used... But of course they don't, so instead it works brilliantly for finding the best Debian mirror.

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mclien

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Registered: 2020-02-29

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Re: Question: Best/fastest repos in general for each continent?

I only have a faint idea of this mechanism, so:
Could the current situation cause some erratic behaviour, like amirror "not fount" and one minute later it does?
Or: not all suits included in the sources to be found?
(the detailed problem is fund here: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=59135#p59135)

Last edited by mclien (Today 14:29:31)