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TheNutCase 06-28-2020 10:47 PM
Comment regarding mirror websites.
 
Recently, when I went through the process of updating Slackware 14.2, I started out by using the Utah mirror. I quickly discovered that doing so was a mistake, because the Utah mirror, as of this posting, is not updated and/or properly maintained (I kept getting a lot of checksum error messages from it). On the other hand, however, the Indiana mirror, which I tried next, seems to be much better at that (no checksum error messages as of yet).

RadicalDreamer 06-29-2020 12:01 AM
I use xmission.

dugan 06-29-2020 02:07 PM
I swear by ftp.oregonstate.edu.

bassmadrigal 06-29-2020 02:19 PM
Knowing Utah's mirror has historically always been a good one, I switched slackpkg from my local mirror (which is rsynced from xmission's) to Utah's mirror, ran the following and selected mozilla-thunderbird and it did everything and upgraded Thunderbird without issue.

Code:
slackpkg update gpg
slackpkg update
slackpkg upgrade-all
Did you run slackpkg update gpg when you switched to Utah's mirror?

TheNutCase 06-30-2020 12:20 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by bassmadrigal (Post 6139391)
Knowing Utah's mirror has historically always been a good one, I switched slackpkg from my local mirror (which is rsynced from xmission's) to Utah's mirror, ran the following and selected mozilla-thunderbird and it did everything and upgraded Thunderbird without issue.

Code:
slackpkg update gpg
slackpkg update
slackpkg upgrade-all
Did you run slackpkg update gpg when you switched to Utah's mirror?
Yes (actually, I started out with Utah's mirror), then switched over to Indiana's mirror after getting all those checksum error messages.

TheNutCase 06-30-2020 12:30 AM
Let me also clarify something at this point. I am NOT making any complaints about the mirrors, nor an I asking any questions about any of them, I was simply making an observation based on my experience.

TheNutCase 06-30-2020 12:33 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by dugan (Post 6139386)
I swear by ftp.oregonstate.edu.
Just be sure that you don't swear AT it :).

tadgy 06-30-2020 05:30 AM
The best mirror to use is: https://slackware.uk/.

Not that I am biassed or anything! :)

Didier Spaier 06-30-2020 06:16 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by tadgy (Post 6139623)
The best mirror to use is: https://slackware.uk/.

Not that I am biassed or anything! :)
In confirm. Thanks Darren!


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