Package: apt-get Severity: wishlist apt-get does not support redirects if using the http method for data transfer.
This could be very usefull feature. The reason for submission is that i am tasked with moving a mirror (not official debian mirror, just a specialised one) to a new machine and i want to do it with minimal impact on the userbase. The basic idea was to setup another mirror on a different machine, temporary redirect all requests and then mangle with the dns records to point where they has to be. Another usefull situation is if a mirror is overloaded and there is a backup somehow (geolocation for example) to transfer part of the load to other machines. Yes i am aware there are clustering technologies that can be used, also maybe apt-proxy but in my oppinion this is suboptimal. regards -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-amd64 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
