[Bug 1780] apt-spy does not have ubuntu mirror listing

[Benjamin Montgomery]

Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/1780

Comment:
ubuntu needs to consider providing a mirrors list similar to what debian
provides for this package to be of much use. Otherwise it requires a complete
rewrite.

[Carthik Sharma]

** Changed in: apt-spy (Ubuntu)
Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed

[angrykeyboarder]

I second that. Not to meniton that list needs some updating.

[angrykeyboarder]

Oh wow!

I just noticed this bug is 14 MONTHS old....

Uhh.. why not just pull the package from the archive. It's downright
dangerous in it's current state.

[Cyber Dog]

Anybody home? Why is this package even available, it's not only
useless, as the poster above commented, it's plainly dangerous.

[StefanPotyra]

Hi,

I've been asking around if it's possible to get
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors/ as an easily parseble
format, however didn't get a response yet.

Until that's possible, I see two options:
a) somehow parse the html output
b) rewrite /var/lib/apt-spy/mirrors.txt in the package by hand.

Anyone volunteering?

Cheers,
Stefan.

[Matt "Cyber Dog" LaPlante]

Open https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors in FireFox. Right
Click>View Page Info>Links>Ctrl+A>Ctrl+C

vim /tmp/links
[paste from clipboard]
sed -i -e '/canonical/d' /tmp/links -e '/launchpad/d' /tmp/links

[angrykeyboarder]

As stated 7 months ago..

"Uhh.. why not just pull the package from the archive? It's downright
dangerous in it's current state."

[Jordan]

"I am working on several patches to apt-spy so that it can parse the
ubuntu wiki page that has the package mirrors."

It seems this idea has already been abandoned but I would just like to
note that it seems incredibly insecure to grab apt sources from a wiki,
even if a maliciously added repository wouldn't authenticate with pgp
most users unfortunately ignore those errors and would install
unathenticated packages anyways.

[dAniel hAhler]

I've just filed bug #139016 to remove apt-spy from universe.

[Daniel T Chen]

apt-spy is no longer in the Ubuntu repository for releases newer than
feisty.

** Changed in: apt-spy (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix

[PomCompot]

It seems now that Ubuntu provides a mirror list through
http://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt. Is it enough to push back apt-spy
in repository (with some modifications to retrieve the list of mirrors
from this URL)? The only problem seems to be that mirros.ubuntu.com is
regularly down.

It seems there's also a port for Ubuntu wrote in Ruby available here:
https://github.com/lagged/apt-spy2. Not packaged and doesn't know what
it worths.
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