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Hi Adam,
On Fri, May 07, 2021 at 11:21:26AM +0100, Adam Spiers wrote:
> On Fri, May 07, 2021 at 11:06:37AM +0100, Adam Spiers wrote:
> According to https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Apt-cacher#Available_mirrors
> I should have been able to prepend apt-cacher.lon.bitfolk.com/debian/
> but
>
> deb http://apt-cacher.lon.bitfolk.com/debian/deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main
>
> did not work.
That article doesn't list "deb.debian.org" so what you tried is not
expected to work. If the "available mirrors" bit in the article
didn't clearly suggest to you what you could put there, could you
edit it to make it more clear?
The reason why "deb.debian.org" isn't in the list is because that
mirror is a geo-ip thing that redirects to what it thinks is the
nearest fastly CDN node. It's mainly used for giving out to people
when you don't know where in the world they are so giving them a
geographical mirror would not be appropriate. Also for mobile users,
for example.
Doesn't make a lot of sense for things permanently located in
London, which is why the default setting is "
ftp.uk.debian.org".
Cheers,
Andy
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