Hey @termux, I just installed #termux on a new #GrapheneOS device. When I did pkg upgrade, it automatically chose a Chinese mirror although I am in Europe, and I am not using Orbot or any VPN. Should I be worried?
if you don't want to use those mirrors, you are free to run the "termux-change-repo" command in your terminal to change your mirrors per their geographical continent(Asia, Europe...).
That would be neat... But for privacy reasons we do not want to rely on 3rd party do to the location estimation (which is typically done by trying to geolocate IP address).
We had a mirrorbits service before on our server to handle automatically redirecting to estimated closest mirror, and will likely set it up again at some point, but from user perspective it is still better to manually set closest mirror, to avoid unnecessary redirects
I assumed that when it says, “testing the available mirrors,” pkg does something like netselect-apt, apt-mirror-updater or apt-smart in the background to find the fastest package repository. Those tools do not rely on a third-party service, I think.
@Rastal That just what I did next, and it helped. But that is just a workaround. I would hate to see more European users defaulting to using Chinese software repositories.
Termux
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in reply to Christian Peach • • •That would be neat... But for privacy reasons we do not want to rely on 3rd party do to the location estimation (which is typically done by trying to geolocate IP address).
We had a mirrorbits service before on our server to handle automatically redirecting to estimated closest mirror, and will likely set it up again at some point, but from user perspective it is still better to manually set closest mirror, to avoid unnecessary redirects
Christian Peach
in reply to Termux • • •Rastal
in reply to Christian Peach • • •Christian Peach
in reply to Rastal • • •That just what I did next, and it helped. But that is just a workaround. I would hate to see more European users defaulting to using Chinese software repositories.