[pve-devel] [PATCH installer] install: adapt to changes in repository config when setting mirror

[Shannon Sterz]

On Thu Jul 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM CEST, Fabian Grünbichler wrote:
> On July 24, 2025 4:35 pm, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
>> Am 24.07.25 um 12:11 schrieb Shannon Sterz:
>>> newer isos ship with new deb822 style repository configurations in
>>> `/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources`. make the installer set the
>>> mirror in the correct file again.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Shannon Sterz <s.sterz at proxmox.com>
>>> ---
>>> only did some rudimentary testing here, but fixing this up might be nice
>>> in the long run.
>>
>> Thanks & good catch!
>>
>> Something that I wondered for a while is if it's still useful to point
>> to the per-country mirror hostnames, or if the fastly provided CDN is the
>> better option though. Probably depends a bit on the quality of the
>> respective per-country mirrors.
>>
>> @Fabian, do you maybe have any better info here?
>
> fastly/deb.debian.org is the suggested mirror upstream as well nowadays:
>
> https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/upgrading.en.html#adding-apt-internet-sources

i'd send patch that removes the if-statement in question here then. we
might want to remove the `debmirrors` function from `Tools.pm` in
`pve-common` too.