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debian mirrors

My closest Debian mirror has been debian.yorku.ca for pretty much as long as I can recall. My preferred method of administrating software updates on a machine running Debian unstable is to blindly do an apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade every single day. I know it's not the best thing to do but it keeps the numbers down a little, at most you usually have a handful of packages to update everyday, instead of doing this once a week and suddenly having 300 packages to update.

The other aspect of this is helper applications like apt-listbugs and apt-listchanges become more manageable if your only reading bug reports and changelogs for 5 packages instead of 300 packages.

I noticed however this past week, there have been no new updates. I should have clued in after 2 days but I didn't until tonight, suspecting something was wrong I switched mirrors and sure enough, 144 packages, 214MB needed to be downloaded. So if you run Debian unstable, and have seen no updates this week, you might want to check your mirrors. While I now take care of this, I will leave you with movie of an elephant on a trampoline.