broken dist upgrade

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Wed Oct 24 18:10:28 UTC 2007


Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote:

> NoOp spake thusly on:
> 
>> Sounds very much like the problem that I had with one of my systems. For
>> some reason /etc/apt/sources.list did not get updated to include:
>> 
>> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted universe
>> multiverse
> 
> IMO, archive.ubuntu.com is about the worst place to point your
> sources.list files. There are dozens of mirrors. The main one is almost
> always slower.

Not so.  It's (well, I expect it's really "they're") universally better than
the canadian mirrors, and I dare say those are better than some...

> Oh and I don't upgrade. I do clean installs. Upgrading is against my
> religion, :)

I, otoh, try to upgrade always.
-- 
derek





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