Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 11:51 +1300 schrieb martin f krafft: > Package: apt > Version: 0.7.25 > Severity: wishlist > > Moving around a lot, I often switch my Debian mirrors. > geo.debian.org is not really an option as that doesn't allow me to > use internal mirrors. Whenever I switch mirrors in sources.list, > however, /var/lib/apt/lists gets cleaned and everything has to be > redownloaded. > > Maybe APT could check the *Release files in that directory and > reuse existing files if they're found to be official Debian > Package/Source lists? This would save me having to do the same s/// > replace on the directory contents that I do in sources.list, which > is arguably not that much trouble, but it would be nice if APT did > it for me.
I don't think that this could be done easily as the files are identified based on hostname, port and path. Options for you might be: a) local apt-cacher-ng serving from localhost:3142/debian/ - the real source configured in /etc/apt-cacher-ng/backends_debian b) using ftp.debian.org in sources.list and hacking /etc/hosts to make it point to your favorite mirror. Works in most cases. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
