On Wednesday 06 December 2006 18:35, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 04:23:01PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > David Baron: > > > ALL the alternatives available are in /etc/apt/sources.list. I do not > > > want to delete access to ftp.us.debiian.org. I want the local mirrors > > > to be tried first. > > > > There is absolutely no reason to keep several official mirrors in your > > sources.list. They all contain the same software (that's why they are > > called mirrors). On 'apt-get update', apt will download all package > > lists from every mirror, but on 'install' it will only use the first > > mirror mentioned in your sources.list anyway. > > > > If your primary mirror is unreliable, pick another one or keep entries > > using a different mirror *commented out* in your sources.list and enable > > them only when your primary mirror freaks out. Otherwise, you are > > abusing bandwidth donated to the Debian project. > > this seems like another good time to mention apt-spy. very useful.
Should have a look at that. A wishlist for apt-get. EVERYONE will be using stock stable/unstable/testing groups of packages. So these packages could have a 1st-mirror, 2nd-mirror, etc. Special packages such as systemimage, qmail, etc., would be specified in sources.list as now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
