New mint-debian-mirrors package

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mockturtl

Re: New mint-debian-mirrors package

Post by mockturtl »

2012.09.10 looking good here.
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Re: New mint-debian-mirrors package

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OK thanks everyone, this is going live today.
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Re: New mint-debian-mirrors package

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Wow... it turned out that the debian.lth.se mirror is a lot faster from my location:

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Server http://debian.linuxmint.com - 99Kbps
Server http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debian - 247Kbps
Server http://debian.lth.se/lmde - 538Kbps
Thank you Clem. :)
Joelito

Re: New mint-debian-mirrors package

Post by Joelito »

Wow, seems that mint-debian-mirrors works propertly, my old sources.list:

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#
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import backport romeo
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/multimedia testing main non-free
#
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/ stable main
#
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/alecive/antigone/ubuntu maverick main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tiheum/equinox/ubuntu maverick main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ravefinity-project/ppa/ubuntu maverick main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/themes/ubuntu maverick main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bisigi/ppa/ubuntu maverick main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/danielrichter2007/grub-customizer/ubuntu maverick main
#
New one:

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#
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import backport romeo
deb http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debian/latest testing main contrib non-free
deb http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debian/latest/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debian/latest/multimedia testing main non-free
#
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/ stable main
#
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/alecive/antigone/ubuntu maverick main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tiheum/equinox/ubuntu maverick main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ravefinity-project/ppa/ubuntu maverick main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/themes/ubuntu maverick main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bisigi/ppa/ubuntu maverick main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/danielrichter2007/grub-customizer/ubuntu maverick main
#
Question, is it going to be updated the mirror list? Maybe I can run it now and then to see more options of mirrors.
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Re: New mint-debian-mirrors package

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You can rerun it if you want to change your mirror... but you won't see more mirrors.

On our side when we add or remove a mirror from the list, we'll send an updated mint-debian-mirrors package, so you'll be asked automatically.
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bigbenaugust

Re: New mint-debian-mirrors package

Post by bigbenaugust »

linuxmint.com was the fastest mirror from both my home and office-- but it also reports that all mirrors are faster from home. Very interesting... *wrings hands*
maxibuntu

Re: UPDATE PACK 5 FEEDBACK THREAD

Post by maxibuntu »

The update of mintupdate-debian and mint-debian-mirrors gave errors. It wrote a sources list that was unable to retrieve the sources. It happend on two systems, one pointing to lates and one pointing to incoming. It happend both with selecting the first (french) update server and also the third standard debian server. (Screenshot is in dutch lang).
zerozero

Re: UPDATE PACK 5 FEEDBACK THREAD

Post by zerozero »

maxibuntu,
screenshots of error messages don't help much; can you give us the output of

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cat /etc/apt/sources.list
and also

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cat /etc/apt/apt/sources.list.bk
maxibuntu

Re: UPDATE PACK 5 FEEDBACK THREAD

Post by maxibuntu »

Right. There's slashes missing:

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http://debian.linuxmint.comlatest/
http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debianincoming/

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tester@lmde:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# Linux Mint Repositories
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import backport
deb-src http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import backport #Added by software-properties
deb http://debian.linuxmint.comlatest/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.comlatest/security/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.comlatest/multimedia/ testing main non-free

tester@lmde:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.bk
# Linux Mint Repositories
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import backport
deb-src http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import backport #Added by software-properties
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/security/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/multimedia/ testing main non-free

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debian@box:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# Linux Mint Repositories
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian incoming main upstream import
deb-src http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian incoming main upstream import #Added by software-properties
deb http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debianincoming/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debianincoming/security/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debianincoming/multimedia/ testing main non-free

debian@box~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.bk
# Linux Mint Repositories
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian incoming main upstream import
deb-src http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian incoming main upstream import #Added by software-properties
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming/security/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming/multimedia/ testing main non-free
zerozero

Re: UPDATE PACK 5 FEEDBACK THREAD

Post by zerozero »

maxibuntu, is this something that you can replicate?
can you rewrite the faulty sources.list with the sources.list.bk and then in the terminal run

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mint-choose-debian-mirror
pick again the fastest mirror and in the end give us the output of

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inxi -r
tks for the cooperation :)
maxibuntu

Re: UPDATE PACK 5 FEEDBACK THREAD

Post by maxibuntu »

zerozero, yes I can replicate on both systems:

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root@box:/etc/apt# mint-choose-debian-mirror
Current server: http://debian.linuxmint.com/ (incoming)
Server http://debian.linuxmint.com - 127Kbps
Server http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debian - 811Kbps
Server http://debian.lth.se/lmde - 254Kbps
Best server: http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debian
Selected server: http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debian
Saving old /etc/apt/sources.list in /etc/apt/sources.list.bk
Updating /etc/apt/sources.list

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root@box:/etc/apt# inxi -r
Repos:     Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
           deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian incoming main upstream import
           deb-src http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian incoming main upstream import #Added by software-properties
           deb http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debianincoming/ testing main contrib non-free
           deb http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debianincoming/security/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
           deb http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debianincoming/multimedia/ testing main non-free

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root@lmde:/etc/apt# mint-choose-debian-mirror
Current server: http://debian.linuxmint.com/ (latest)
Server http://debian.linuxmint.com - 139Kbps
Server http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debian - 733Kbps
Server http://debian.lth.se/lmde - 326Kbps
Best server: http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debian
Selected server: http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debian
Saving old /etc/apt/sources.list in /etc/apt/sources.list.bk
Updating /etc/apt/sources.list

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root@lmde:/etc/apt# inxi -r
Repos:     Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
           deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import backport
           deb-src http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import backport #Added by software-properties
           deb http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debianlatest/ testing main contrib non-free
           deb http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debianlatest/security/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
           deb http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debianlatest/multimedia/ testing main non-free
zerozero

Re: UPDATE PACK 5 FEEDBACK THREAD

Post by zerozero »

maxibuntu,
:? i tried several combinations (rewrite the .bk, deleting all and loading again the .safe) and can't replicate that (this output is just one and i get the same mirror as you)

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zerozero@wine ~ $ mint-choose-debian-mirror
Current server: http://debian.linuxmint.com (incoming)
Server http://debian.linuxmint.com - 75Kbps
Server http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debian - 487Kbps
Server http://debian.lth.se/lmde - 237Kbps
Best server: http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debian
Selected server: http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debian
Saving old /etc/apt/sources.list in /etc/apt/sources.list.bk
Updating /etc/apt/sources.list
zerozero@wine ~ $ inxi -r
Repos:     Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
           deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import incoming backport romeo
           deb http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debian/incoming testing main contrib non-free
           deb http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debian/incoming/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
           deb http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debian/incoming/multimedia testing main non-free
do you have the same versions?

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zerozero@wine ~ $ apt policy mintupdate-debian mint-debian-mirrors
mintupdate-debian:
  Installed: 1.0.6
  Candidate: 1.0.6
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.6 0
        700 http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
mint-debian-mirrors:
  Installed: 2012.09.10
  Candidate: 2012.09.10
  Version table:
 *** 2012.09.10 0
        700 http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
zerozero@wine ~ $ 
maxibuntu

Re: UPDATE PACK 5 FEEDBACK THREAD

Post by maxibuntu »

Same versions... strange... Mind you, I have tested with TWO boxes... One of them is in virtualbox... I have 686 kernels...

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debian@box:~$ LC_ALL=us apt policy mintupdate-debian mint-debian-mirrors
mintupdate-debian:
  Installed: 1.0.6
  Candidate: 1.0.6
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.6 0
        700 http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
mint-debian-mirrors:
  Installed: 2012.09.10
  Candidate: 2012.09.10
  Version table:
 *** 2012.09.10 0
        700 http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
zerozero

Re: New mint-debian-mirrors package

Post by zerozero »

maxibuntu, i decided to move these posts here, the place is more appropriate
zerozero

Re: New mint-debian-mirrors package

Post by zerozero »

another report of the same bug here >> http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=186&t=112496
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Re: New mint-debian-mirrors package

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Something's wrong... the mirror I'm using (debian.lth.se) shows 18 packages available while the main one shows 1303. Did I get in the middle of the synchronization process? :) But mintUpdate tells me that the Update Pack 5 is available in both cases...

One more thing: this secondary mirror has some strange versions of the infamous libcairo2/fontconfig stuff.

Here's what I get with it:

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LC_ALL=C apt-cache policy fontconfig-config
fontconfig-config:
  Installed: 2.8.0-2.1ubuntu3
  Candidate: 2.8.0-3.1
  Version table:
     2.8.0-3.1 0
        500 http://debian.lth.se/lmde/latest/ testing/main amd64 Packages
 *** 2.8.0-2.1ubuntu3 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
and here's what I get with the main mirror:

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LC_ALL=C apt-cache policy fontconfig-config
fontconfig-config:
  Installed: 2.8.0-2.1ubuntu3
  Candidate: 2.9.0-6
  Version table:
     2.9.0-6 0
        500 http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/ testing/main amd64 Packages
 *** 2.8.0-2.1ubuntu3 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
I understand that all this font stuff won't be stored in the Mint repos from now on (these packages are not here anymore) because we're moving to the upstream packages for that.
But fontconfig 2.8.0-3.1, and not from ubuntu? Oh no, this version is going to make my fonts ugly, I'm not updating to that :D
zerozero

Re: New mint-debian-mirrors package

Post by zerozero »

please give enough time for the mirrors to sync :D

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zerozero@wine ~ $ apt policy fontconfig-config
fontconfig-config:
  Installed: 2.9.0-6
  Candidate: 2.9.0-6
  Version table:
 *** 2.9.0-6 0
        500 http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debian/incoming/ testing/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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Re: New mint-debian-mirrors package

Post by Monsta »

zerozero wrote:please give enough time for the mirrors to sync :D
Of course I'll do that :) Just worrying there will be people who won't.
And how does one know the process is over? By manually comparing the number of packages in the main mirror and the other one? :)
mockturtl

Re: New mint-debian-mirrors package

Post by mockturtl »

Monsta wrote:And how does one know the process is over?
http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2170 :mrgreen:
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Re: New mint-debian-mirrors package

Post by Monsta »

Something's wrong either with my browser or the main linuxmint.com page - I don't see that post there. :shock:
I usually go there to check for the new blog posts.

Alright, thank you, I'll keep an eye on it... though it's not very convenient that mintUpdate tells me Update Pack 5 is available on a mirror I'm using while it's still being synchronized.
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