apt-get reports no new packages

Nate Duehr(nate@natetech.com) is reported to have said:
> William Jensen wrote:
> >I'm following Etch and apt is reporting no new packages for a touch over a
> >week.
>
> Make sure your /etc/apt/sources.list is pointed at an official Debian
> mirror and if you can get a specific example from your friend of
> something that updated on his machine but not yours, hunt down which
> mirror he got it from and see if your mirror is getting updates properly.
>

I found that while testing apt-cacher I had the same problem, If I
didn't use the cacher, I got 50 updates. But... while trying to find
'working' mirrors, from the current mirror list, I found many that
were just not there. Some of the mirrors took three tries to get a
working package list. See previous post on that problem.

Here are todays results of a netselect run on the first 7 in the
latest mirror list of US sites.

netselect -vv ftp.us.debian.org http.us.debian.org ftp.debian.org
debian.crosslink.net ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu ftp.egr.msu.edu
ike.egr.msu.edu

204.152.191.7 251 ms 12 hops 90% ok ( 9/10) [ 613]
128.101.240.212 225 ms 11 hops 70% ok ( 7/10) [ 676]
35.9.37.225 218 ms 15 hops 57% ok ( 4/ 7) [ 952]
ftp.debian.org 225 ms 11 hops 70% ok ( 7/10) [ 674]
debian.crosslink.net 217 ms 15 hops 90% ok ( 9/10) [ 605]
128.61.111.11 9999 ms 30 hops 0% ok
128.61.111.10 9999 ms 30 hops 0% ok
128.61.111.9 9999 ms 30 hops 0% ok
ftp.egr.msu.edu 198 ms 15 hops 60% ok ( 6/10) [ 825]
128.101.80.133 9999 ms 30 hops 0% ok
35.9.37.225 202 ms 15 hops 50% ok ( 5/10) [ 1010]
216.37.55.114 9999 ms 30 hops 0% ok
208.185.25.35 9999 ms 30 hops 0% ok
ike.egr.msu.edu 200 ms 15 hops 50% ok ( 5/10) [ 1002]
605 debian.crosslink.net

It seems a waste but it looks like having more then one mirror in the
sources.list might be necessary.

Wayne

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