[clug] A Newbie query - was local Debian Security mirror

Francis James Whittle fudje at grapevine.net.au
Sun Aug 2 01:47:09 MDT 2009


You should get a dns redirection to the appropriate mirror on the line

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable main

On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 16:27 +1000, Felix Karpfen wrote:
> Craig Small wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 08:34:01AM +1000, Felix Karpfen wrote:
> >> Description:security.debian.org mirror
> >> purposes of this server:
> >> security.debian.org - mirror (Australia)
> >>
> >> And the next step is  --?
> > It just works. It's using geolocation so generally it works out you are
> > in Australia so use the Australian mirror. 
> 
> I should have been more explicit!
> 
> My question should have been:
> 
> Can I access the (anu) mirror via an entry to "/etc/apt/sources.list"?
> 
> If so, what is the syntax of that entry?
> 
> Felix
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