Michael Vogt schrieb am Monday, den 21. March 2011: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 01:35:23AM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > [..] > > P.S. apt also provides a "mirror" method (just like http, ftp, etc) but I > > consider it to be suboptimal and a poor way to tackle the problem. > > Why exactly do you feel this way? What problems do you see with it? > > I see some benefits in the mirror method like that the mirror list is > cached locally (on apt-get update) so the mirror service is hit less > often. Also if the central service is down apt can still use the > cached local info. Plus it supports automatic retry if a mirror fails. I agree here. Some kind of local override would also be nice. It would be nice if I can run my own local mirror service, for example on my laptop I want to use some local mirrors if I am in a specific network. Afaik there is currently no way to dynamically choose a mirror in apt, based on a local decision.
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