Debian Belgian Mirror

How big is the Debian FTP site? (19/01/2005)

Note that the archive is constantly growing; testing will grow especially as a release approaches. Also, we do not recommend reducing size of a mirror by excluding specific distributions; exclude specific architectures or even sources instead.

How big is the Debian non-US FTP site?

The whole non-US archive is roughly 1.1 GB. 60-110 MB per released architecture, less for each unreleased architecture.

Can I use rsync to access to the mirror?

Yes...
rsync://rsync.debian.skynet.be/debian
rsync://rsync.debian.skynet.be/debian-non-us
rsync://rsync.debian.skynet.be/debian-security
rsync://rsync.debian.skynet.be/backports.org
rsync://rsync.debian.skynet.be/debian-ipv6

How can I use Skynet mirror in my apt source file?

# APT source file - example for stable release (etch)
# For other release, just replace 'stable' by 'sarge', 'sid', ...

deb http://http.us.debian.skynet.be/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.skynet.be/ stable/updates main contrib non-free

### By ftp if you prefer...
#deb ftp://ftp.debian.skynet.be/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
#deb ftp://security.debian.skynet.be/debian-security/ stable/updates main contrib non-free

## uncomment these if you want sources packages
#deb-src http://http.us.debian.skynet.be/ stable main non-free contrib
#deb-src http://non-us.debian.skynet.be/ stable/non-US main contrib non-free

We have also a mirror Backports.org project (backports of recent sid packages)

Website of the project is http://www.backports.org
To use the backports.org mirror, just to put in your apt source file:

deb http://backports.debian.skynet.be sarge-backports main contrib non-free
deb-src http://backports.debian.skynet.be sarge-backports main contrib non-free

We have also a mirror of dotdeb project

Website of the project is http://www.dotdeb.org

deb http://dotdeb.debian.skynet.be/ stable all
deb-src http://dotdeb.debian.skynet.be/ stable all

We have also a mirror of debian-ipv6 project

Website of the project is http://debian.fabbione.net/
To use our mirror, just to put in your apt source file:

deb http://ipv6.debian.skynet.be stable all
deb-src http://ipv6.debian.skynet.be stable all