what it says on the box
Is mirror.ac.za being problematic for distros other than debian?
what it says on the box
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I have stopped using them for ages now, very unreliable.
"The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God."
i always have an international repo as a backup. what i liked about having it is that you can be sure packages that are available locally will definitely max out the line speed. whereas that may not always be the case on an international mirror. and debian was good at choosing it if the package was available locally.Originally Posted by MyWorld
I have stopped using them for ages now, very unreliable.
sad though.
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I've had lots of issues with them lately.
We had an outage on mirror.ac.za over Christmas. We have resolved the fault on the server and it should be running normally again.
If you're having any specific issues with the server then please post them here and I'll have a look.
still a problem
E: Release file for http://debian.mirror.ac.za/debian/di...ting/InRelease is expired (invalid since 14d 11h 33min 57s). Updates for this repository will not be applied.
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I'm also having a problem on opensuse.mirror.ac.za - old packages.
http://opensuse.mirror.ac.za/opensus...packages.DU.gz
Yeah - the debian sync script is a bit of a pain. The lock files get messed up. We didn't write that one though
Just did a manual cleanup and hopefully we'll be up to date in a few hours.
OpenSUSE looks up to date right now. You still having issues?
seems to be down again
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This will sort you out.
aptitude -o 'Acquire::Check-Valid-Until=false' update
Yes - unfortunately it is. Seems to be some issue with the hardware and I don't have access to the data centre where it is hosted. Someone will be looking into it tomorrow morning.
ambo I appreciate your feedback. But mirror has been rock solid since I started using it around 2005 at least. What has happened in the last year?
Interestingly I can get full speed from international mirrors most times. If this continues your userbase will fall as uncapped becomes a reality to more South Africans
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