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Most of our Slackware mirrors with dep support are using the default german mirror as package source, which imho is a bad idea.
Perhaps the finnish and english mirrors could change to their local slackware mirrors? Therefore only the deps dir should be rsynced and the adddepinfo script should be run as cron. See the USA mirror (hosted by laprjns) as example

thenktor wrote: Therefore only the deps dir should be rsynced ......

Although this is rather obvious to me now, I was not rsync'ing my /deps directories. At the recommendation by thenktor in #salix, I've changed my adddepinfo.sh to add the following rsync line:
This is for my 32 bit repos. I made a similar change to the addepinfo scrip in my 64 bit repos, just changing the path from .../i486 /... to .../x86_64/...

laprjns wrote:This is for my 32 bit repos. I made a similar change to the addepinfo scrip in my 64 bit repos, just changing the path from .../i486 /... to .../x86_64/...

Just remembering: deps are the same for i486 an x86_64, so this is not needed

Is download.salixos.org in Germany or in France? It is not exactly clear according to the download page in wiki .

The repo is in France, but Slackware packages are downloaded from a server in Germany.

so how can I use this USA mirror?

It would be awesome if we could have a mirror added at OSUOSL. It's already a pretty major slack and Vector site.

Duncan_Idaho wrote:so how can I use this USA mirror?

gslapt -> options -> sources

Add the USA Slackware mirror from http://www.salixos.org/wiki/index.php?title=Download and remove the European one. Don't remove the preferred Salix mirror!

hi thenktor, thanks for the answer
on a side note have to mention that the slackware.org.uk mirrors appear to be down
so all their links on the download page are broken

http access to slackware.org.uk doesn't work. I think ftp access was working for a while, but maybe it's down again. They had hardware problems with their server and they're still trying to get things back to normal.