Using a PureOS mirror for faster updates

You can use mirror.fsf.org in addition to repo.pureos.net in your apt sources.list so both repos will be used by apt for installing packages. This can speed up your downloads, especially when repo.puri.sm is heavily loaded, like when there is a new release and everyone is doing a dist-upgrade.

Create /etc/apt/mirrors.txt with these two lines,

https://repo.pureos.net/pureos
https://mirror.fsf.org/pureos

and update your sources.list like this,

deb mirror+file:/etc/apt/mirrors.txt dawn main

Today I was upgrading from crimson to dawn (this is still not officially supported, so do it only if you can figure things out yourself) and noticed repo.pureos.net was slow, so I looked around for another mirror and found mirror.fsf.org/pureos.

I am sharing it here so it is useful to more people.

Can I also setup my own mirror, if I have some server suitable for that? Do you have any hints about how that could be done? (Would it be the same procedure as for debian?)

yes, more mirrors are welcome. It should be the same process as debian, if you need anything more than that, let me know.

$ host mirrors.fsf.org
Host mirrors.fsf.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

mirror.fsf.org not mirrors

It’s correct in one part of the OP but incorrect in others.

@praveen.arimbrathodi

Sorry for the typo, corrected. It is mirror.fsf.org - it was correct in the code block, but wrong in the description.