Re: debian non-US mirror

Tim Connors <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.mlug.main
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Kenny Jao wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> Andrew McGlashan wrote:
>
> > Hi Kenny,
> >
> > Kenny Jao wrote:
> >
> >> Here is the relevant part of my sources.list:
> >> deb http://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian-non-US testing/non-US main
> >> contrib non-free
> >> deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian-non-US/ testing/non-US main
> >> contrib non-free

They've been down since sarge was released for me.  See below.

> > Both work for my Swiftel connection (People Telecom).
> >
> Thanks for the quick reply.  Are you running testing as well?  I am
> still having trouble doing "apt-get update".  The main packages work
> fine but the non-US ones are giving me the following error message:
>
> Err http://ftp.iinet.net.au testing/non-US/main Packages
>   404 Not Found
> Ign http://ftp.iinet.net.au testing/non-US/main Release
> Err http://ftp.iinet.net.au testing/non-US/contrib Packages
>   404 Not Found
> Ign http://ftp.iinet.net.au testing/non-US/contrib Release
> Err http://ftp.iinet.net.au testing/non-US/non-free Packages
>   404 Not Found
> Ign http://ftp.iinet.net.au testing/non-US/non-free Release
>
> Same error message when I used the ftp.au.debian.org mirror.  Anyone got
> any ideas?

There was discussion before sarge was released that debian-us is now
redundant.  There were only 5 packages left on it, and they were obsolete
or something (see a debian weekly news, about 2 or 3 weeks back).

Perhaps they ended up removing it?

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TimC
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