On Wednesday 06 December 2006 21:48, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 08:17:14PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > 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. > > are you saying that certain core packages should come from the master > archive only and all others from the mirror? You may be able to do > this in apt.conf somehow. How about just double checking the md5 sums > from the master archive? regardless, ISTM that the odds of any one > mirror being compromised are about the same and why the master archive > wouldn't necessarily be compromised is beyond me. IOW, I don't see the > advantage to what you propose.
No. The main packages are taken from the mirror but since everyone is using these packages, one can specified a list of preferred mirrors and they can be tried until one works. I want unstable from mirror1,if not mirror 2, etc. Other packages not on the "main" would have their repositories specified explicitely in sources.list. > > IIRC, apt will update from all servers in > sources.list and pull from them in order of appearance in the file. I > don't know what happens if the first one fails -- does it move on to > the next mirror? > > A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
