On Friday, February 1, 2002, at 07:41 AM, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
Leave it as a relative URL (or is it just package name, don't
remember), and then let apt-get pick the mirror of its choice.
Pick the mirror by what means?
A configuration file in /etc/apt, of course. Could be a bunch of
mirrors or one. Not particularly relevant.
I think a fundamental problem here is that
if you add normal Debian mirrors to apt's configuration file,
apt will know
about those packages the FSF wants to avoid to include in the
first place.
No, these mirrors would just tell apt where the package pool,
not the Packages file(s), is located. So, if the FSF doesn't
list netscrape in their Packages file, the user will never see
it, even though us.debian.org is providing the pool.
This will also allow people to set up lightweight internal
mirrors of debian. Mirror the essential packages, packages you
use often, and then leave the rest as generic pool references.
